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Type: scientific

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Status: neutral

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Author: Marvin Minsky

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Tags: mind space communication cognition memory meaning

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Description: A fun, easy to read book (lots of pictures and broken up text) that looks at cognition, theA fun, easy to read book (lots of pictures and broken up text) that looks at cognition, the brain, theories of mind and memory, of space and meaning, perception, context and ambiguities, framing, expression, mental models, etc....

2005-10-30

 

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Type: scientific

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Status: liked

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Author: Yuri M. Lotman

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Tags: space semiotics structuralism poetics modelling plot text extra-textual

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Description: Lotman's structuralist review of poetics based on his lectures at Tartu between 1958-1962Lotman's structuralist review of poetics based on his lectures at Tartu between 1958-1962 and first published in Russian in 1964 - this translated edition published in 1976. Lotman's analysis of the text (or theory of art, as in the artistic text) as a semiotic system subject to interpretive modelling and structural analysis. The core of the work contains a structural analysis of the poetic text on a range of levels and is followed by the problems arising in the analysis of the text in relationship to extra-textual structures....

2005-10-30

 

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Type: scientific

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Status: I recommend

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Authors: Gunther Kress Robert Hodge

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Tags: culture space time semiotics communication modality

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Description: A kind of 'put it all in one bag' textbook of semiotics covering communication, culture,A kind of 'put it all in one bag' textbook of semiotics covering communication, culture, sociality, media texts, spatial and temporal dimensions of texts and signs....

2005-10-30