Critical semiotics :: theory, from information to affect /

"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 diminis...

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Main Author: Genosko, Gary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
Series:Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781472596383
1472596382
9781472596390
1472596390

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