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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/aesthetics"  title="aesthetics">aesthetics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/visualisation"  title="visualisation">visualisation</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:12:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22233_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>aesthetics</category><category>visualisation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Semiotic Investigations]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[In &quot;Semiotic Investigations&quot;, Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls &quot;effective semiotics&quot; - a theory that investigates &quot;the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual uses.&quot; As McHoul notes, &quot;these uses take place in a number of &#39;media,&#39; the most important of which is the medium of history - so important, in fact, that it catches up all the other possible media of semiosis, including everyday life and language, fiction, film, talk, art, mathematics, [and] photography.&quot; McHoul expounds his theory of effective semiotics - of &quot;meaning-as-use&quot; - in a series of provocative chapters on diverse topics. He begins by examining the relations between semiotics and history and between semiotics and specific communities. He elaborates on the nature of these relations by demonstrating the &quot;effective semiotics&quot; of a particular photograph from the 1880s, episodes from the film Singin&#39; in the Rain and the Batman comics, literary works, children&#39;s primers, popular accounts of science, and many other objects, artifacts, and experiences. 
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiosis"  title="semiosis">semiosis</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:01:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22225_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>culture</category><category>semiotics</category><category>meaning</category><category>semiosis</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/media"  title="media">media</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/writing"  title="writing">writing</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/hypertextuality"  title="hypertextuality">hypertextuality</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/representation"  title="representation">representation</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:52:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_18586_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>media</category><category>writing</category><category>meaning</category><category>hypertextuality</category><category>representation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elements of Semiology]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[An analysis of de Saussure&#39;s science of signs (semiology) and a nice introduction to semiotics as it stood in the early to mid-1960s in the European tradition. An easily readable slim volume of approximately 100 pages.
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