Search Results - "Semiotics"

The urban code of China by Hassenpflug, Dieter, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Transformations of empty urban space -- Swinging lines and dancing dots -- Closed urban space -- Open urban space -- Urban fictions -- The compact city -- The Chinese city as a semiotic system -- Summary.…”
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Dancing out of line ballrooms, ballets, and mobility in Victorian fiction and culture / by Engelhardt, Molly

Table of Contents: “…The natural accidents of dancing -- Jane Austen and the semiotics of dance: the manner of reading -- Reckless debutantes and the spectacle of "coming out" -- Sylphs in the parlor-- catch them if you can -- Seeds of discontent : dance manias, medical inquiry, and Victorian (ill) health -- The mourning after : dancing the Victorians past.…”
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Dancing out of line ballrooms, ballets, and mobility in Victorian fiction and culture / by Engelhardt, Molly

Table of Contents: “…The natural accidents of dancing -- Jane Austen and the semiotics of dance: the manner of reading -- Reckless debutantes and the spectacle of "coming out" -- Sylphs in the parlor-- catch them if you can -- Seeds of discontent : dance manias, medical inquiry, and Victorian (ill) health -- The mourning after : dancing the Victorians past.…”
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Managing the infosphere governance, technology, and cultural practice in motion / by McDowell, Stephen D., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Managing the infosphere -- Managing technological change -- Scales of governance, governance of scales -- Communication technology, mobility, and cultural consumption -- Internet names, semiotics, and alternative spaces of governance -- Fixity, mobility, and the governance of Internet names -- The infosphere : a world of places, an ocean of information, or a special administrative region?…”
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Managing the infosphere governance, technology, and cultural practice in motion / by McDowell, Stephen D., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Managing the infosphere -- Managing technological change -- Scales of governance, governance of scales -- Communication technology, mobility, and cultural consumption -- Internet names, semiotics, and alternative spaces of governance -- Fixity, mobility, and the governance of Internet names -- The infosphere : a world of places, an ocean of information, or a special administrative region?…”
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Language and "the Feminine" in Nietzsche and Heidegger / by Graybeal, Jean, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Kristeva on language and "the feminine" -- The gay science : women, art, and distance -- Thus spoke Zarathustra : the problem of language -- Ecce homo : abjection and "the feminine" -- Being and time I : immersion in the "symbolic" -- Being and time II : disruption and the "semiotic" -- The later Heidegger : the mystery of language -- Joying in the truth of self-division.…”
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Language and "the Feminine" in Nietzsche and Heidegger / by Graybeal, Jean, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Kristeva on language and "the feminine" -- The gay science : women, art, and distance -- Thus spoke Zarathustra : the problem of language -- Ecce homo : abjection and "the feminine" -- Being and time I : immersion in the "symbolic" -- Being and time II : disruption and the "semiotic" -- The later Heidegger : the mystery of language -- Joying in the truth of self-division.…”
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Creativity and Its Discontents : China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses / by Pang, Laikwan

Table of Contents: “…Creativity as a problem of modernity -- Creativity as a product of labor -- Creativity as a construct of rights -- Cultural policy, intellectual property rights, and cultural tourism -- Cinema as a creative industry -- Branding the creative city with fine arts -- Animation and transcultural signification -- A semiotics of the counterfeit product -- Imitation or appropriation arts?…”
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Creativity and Its Discontents : China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses / by Pang, Laikwan

Table of Contents: “…Creativity as a problem of modernity -- Creativity as a product of labor -- Creativity as a construct of rights -- Cultural policy, intellectual property rights, and cultural tourism -- Cinema as a creative industry -- Branding the creative city with fine arts -- Animation and transcultural signification -- A semiotics of the counterfeit product -- Imitation or appropriation arts?…”
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Little India diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / by Eisenlohr, Patrick, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…: the politics of language and diaspora -- An Indo-Mauritian world : "ancestral culture," Hindus, and their others -- Social semiotics of language : shifting registers, narrative, and performance -- Colonial education, ethnolinguistic identifications, and the origins of ancestral languages -- Performing purity : television and ethnolinguistic recognition -- Calibrations of displacement : diasporization, ancestral language, and temporality.…”
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Little India diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / by Eisenlohr, Patrick, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…: the politics of language and diaspora -- An Indo-Mauritian world : "ancestral culture," Hindus, and their others -- Social semiotics of language : shifting registers, narrative, and performance -- Colonial education, ethnolinguistic identifications, and the origins of ancestral languages -- Performing purity : television and ethnolinguistic recognition -- Calibrations of displacement : diasporization, ancestral language, and temporality.…”
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Interpreting Greek Tragedy : Myth, Poetry, Text / by Segal, Charles, 1936-2002

Table of Contents: “…Greek tragedy and society -- Greek myth as a semiotic and structural system and the problem of tragedy -- Greek tragedy -- Visual symbolism and visual effects in Sophocles -- Sophocles' praise of man and the conflicts of the Antigone -- The tragedy of the Hippolytus -- The two worlds of Euripides' Helen -- Pentheus and Hippolytus on the couch and on the grid -- Euripides' Bacchae -- Boundary violation and the landscape of the self in Senecan tragedy -- Tragedy, corporeality, and the texture of language -- Literature and interpretation.…”
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Interpreting Greek Tragedy : Myth, Poetry, Text / by Segal, Charles, 1936-2002

Table of Contents: “…Greek tragedy and society -- Greek myth as a semiotic and structural system and the problem of tragedy -- Greek tragedy -- Visual symbolism and visual effects in Sophocles -- Sophocles' praise of man and the conflicts of the Antigone -- The tragedy of the Hippolytus -- The two worlds of Euripides' Helen -- Pentheus and Hippolytus on the couch and on the grid -- Euripides' Bacchae -- Boundary violation and the landscape of the self in Senecan tragedy -- Tragedy, corporeality, and the texture of language -- Literature and interpretation.…”
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Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / by Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Shanxi, greater China, and the famine -- Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou -- The wrath of heaven versus human greed -- Qing officialdom and the politics of famine -- Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics -- Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism -- Family and gender in famine -- The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism -- Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue. New tears for new times : the famine revisited.…”
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Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / by Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Shanxi, greater China, and the famine -- Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou -- The wrath of heaven versus human greed -- Qing officialdom and the politics of famine -- Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics -- Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism -- Family and gender in famine -- The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism -- Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue. New tears for new times : the famine revisited.…”
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Data Visualization in Society /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lulu Pinney -- Multimodal academic argument in data visualization / Arlene Archer and Travis Noakes -- Section IV Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics -- What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations / Sara Brinch - A multimodal perspective on data visualization / Tuomo Hiippala -- Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism / Wibke Weber -- The data epic: Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance / Jonathan Gray -- What a line can say: Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations / Verena Elisabeth Lechner -- Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science / Aria Alamalhodaei, Alexandra Alberda, and Anna Feigenbaum -- Section V Data visualization and inequalities -- Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies / John P. …”
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Data Visualization in Society /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lulu Pinney -- Multimodal academic argument in data visualization / Arlene Archer and Travis Noakes -- Section IV Data visualization semiotics and aesthetics -- What we talk about when we talk about beautiful data visualizations / Sara Brinch - A multimodal perspective on data visualization / Tuomo Hiippala -- Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism / Wibke Weber -- The data epic: Visualization practices for narrating life and death at a distance / Jonathan Gray -- What a line can say: Investigating the semiotic potential of the connecting line in data visualizations / Verena Elisabeth Lechner -- Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science / Aria Alamalhodaei, Alexandra Alberda, and Anna Feigenbaum -- Section V Data visualization and inequalities -- Visualizing diversity: Data deficiencies and semiotic strategies / John P. …”
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Remaking the Middle Ages the methods of cinema and history in portraying the medieval world / by Elliott, Andrew B. R.

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Remaking the Middle Ages the methods of cinema and history in portraying the medieval world / by Elliott, Andrew B. R.

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Biosocial Worlds : Anthropology of health environments beyond determinism

Table of Contents: “…Studying differentiation as material-semiotic practice -- 3. Pig-human relations in neonatology: knowing and unknowing in a multi-species collaborative -- 4. …”
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