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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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Editor’s preface: For a minor semiotics
Sign Systems StudiesEditor’s preface: For a minor semiotics.
Ott Puumeister
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Staging national identities in contemporary Estonian theatre and film
Sign Systems Studies, 2005 This paper focuses on the ways in which national identities are staged in recent film and theatre productions in Estonia. We want to complement the prevalent approaches to nationality (Anderson 1983; Gellner 1983; Bhabha 1990), where the role of theatre ...
Ester Võsu, Alo Joosepson
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Sign Systems Studies, 2023 This paper examines how to model immersive virtual environments using Kalevi Kull’s ecosemiotic model of four degrees of nature. Using this theoretical model allows for an investigation into the paradoxical nature of reality and hyperreality, which is a
Alec Kozicki
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The Semiotics of Global Warming: Combating Semiotic Corrruption [PDF]
, 2007 The central focus of this paper is the disjunction between the findings of climate science in revealing the threat of global warming and the failure to act appropriately to these warnings. The development of climate science can be illuminated through the
Gare, Arran
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Denotation and connotation in the human-computer interface: The ‘Save as...’ command [PDF]
, 2004 This paper presents a semiotic technique as a means of exploring meaning and understanding in interface design and use. This is examined through a study of the interaction between the ‘file’ metaphor and ‘save as’ command metaphor.
Chris Condon +4 more
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The Rise of Human–Computer Integration in Marketing: A Theory Synthesis
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human–computer integration (HCInt) technologies, which merge human bodily, cognitive, and sensory functions with computational processes, are reshaping the foundations of consumer experience. Unlike traditional human–computer interaction, HCInt entails adaptive and reciprocal coupling through AI‐driven augmentation, wearables, muscle–computer ...
Carlos Velasco +5 more
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Sign Systems Studies, 2018 The transportation and translocation of species beyond their natural habitats is considered to be one of the major causes of biodiversity loss these days. Concerns are growing also about urbanization and the resulting destruction of natural habitats.
Riin Magnus, Tiit Remm
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“Ready for the Homeland” in Croatian media: Commemorations, victory, and foundation
Sign Systems Studies, 2023 This article analyses the media discourse surrounding the WWII fascist salute Za dom spremni (ZDS) in the aftermath of two national commemorations that took place in Croatia in spring 2020: Jasenovac and Operation Flash (Bljesak).
Katarina Damčević
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Crushing Animals and Crashing Funerals: The Semiotics of Free Expression [PDF]
, 2012 With insights from philosophy of language and semiotics, this article addresses judicial choices and semantic errors involved in United States v. Stevens, 130 S.Ct.
Lloyd, Harold Anthony
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