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Critical semiotics : theory, from information to affect
- Title
- Critical semiotics : theory, from information to affect / Gary Genosko.
- Author
- Genosko, Gary
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
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- Description
- 193 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Critical Semiotics" provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to have diminished meaning or even no meaning still have so much power to affect us, or to carry on our ability to affect the world? Linguistics and semiotics have been accused of being adrift from the affective turn and not accounting for these visceral forces beneath or generally other from conscious knowing. In this book, Gary Genosko delivers a detailed refutation, with analyses of specific contributions to critical semiotic approaches to meaning and signification. People want to understand how other people are moved and to understand embodied social actions, feelings and passions at the same time as understanding how this takes place. Semiotics must make the affective turn.
- Series Statement
- Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
- Uniform Title
- Bloomsbury advances in semiotics.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-186) and index.
- Contents
- From information theory to F́élix Guattari's a-signifying semiotics -- 2. Jean Baudrillard's anti-semiology -- 3. Delineating info-commodities in the age of semiocapitalism -- 4. Michel Foucault's special semiotic characters: obstacle-signs -- 5. Jean-Francois Lyotard's tensor signs and the passage to affect theory -- 6. A toolbox for critical semiotics -- Conclusion -- References.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-4786
- ISBN
- 9781472596376
- 1472596374
- 9781472596369
- 1472596366
- 1472596390
- 9781472596390
- 1472596382
- 9781472596383
- LCCN
- 2016012287
- 60002125376
- OCLC
- 950901550
- Author
- Genosko, Gary, author.
- Title
- Critical semiotics : theory, from information to affect / Gary Genosko.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Bloomsbury Advances in SemioticsBloomsbury advances in semiotics.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-186) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Genosko, Gary. Critical semiotics. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2016] 9781472596390 (DLC) 2016024987
- Other Standard Identifier
- 60002125376
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-4786