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The Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics: A transnational perspective

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2016
This paper seeks to situate the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics of the 1960– 1980s within the larger European intellectual-historical context from which it sprang, and in which it played a vital role.
Igor Pilshchikov, Mikhail Trunin
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Screen-based musical instruments as semiotic machines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The ixi software project started in 2000 with the intention to explore new interactive patterns and virtual interfaces in computer music software. The aim of this paper is not to describe these programs, as they have been described elsewhere, but rather ...
Magnusson, Thor
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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C. S. Peirce and the Square Root of Minus One: Quaternions and a Complex Approach to Classes of Signs and Categorical Degeneration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The beginning for C. S. Peirce was the reduction of the traditional categories in a list composed of a fundamental triad: quality, respect and representation.
Venancio, Rafael Duarte Oliveira
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Semiotics of the 20th century

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2008
Semiotic and linguistic studies of the 20th century have been important mostly in two senses — (1) they have opened a road for comparative research on the origin and development of language and other systems of signs adding a new dimension to the history
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
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all the f words we used to know [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Photos of handwritten list of the 2,000+ F words listed in the 1996 version of Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (Deluxe Edition), published by Gramercy Books of Random House Press in Avenal, New Jersey.
Rhoades, Mindi J
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SMART CITY CONTROL ROOMS: The Rewiring of Local Governance Landscapes in India

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Smart city control rooms are prominent components of the smart city discourse. They embody a long‐standing dream to visualize and manage multiple urban processes in real time through the collation of data flows. Previous research has produced important insights into the design, construction and operation of these facilities.
Devika Prakash   +2 more
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An introduction to and commentary on Luis J. Prieto’s “A semiology: Problems and routes”

open access: yesSign Systems Studies
The following notes are a commentary on Luis J. Prieto’s text “A semiology: Problems and routes”, an English translation of “Une sémiologie: problems et parcours”.
E. I. Chávez Barreto
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Interview with Vyacheslav V. Ivanov about semiotics, the languages of the brain and history of ideas

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2011
The interview with one of the founders of the Tartu–Moscow school, semiotician Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (b. 1929) from August 2010, describes V. V. Ivanov’s opinions of several scholars and their work (including Evgenij Polivanov, Mikhail Bakhtin,
Ekaterina Velmezova, Kalevi Kull
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