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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography in Reflections on Photography as mentioned in this paper, examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death.Abstract:
Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.read more
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Ex Post Facto : Peirce and the Living Signs of the Dead
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that we maintain a relationship with the dead precisely in their death, and this relationship is best understood in terms of Peirce's semiotics and its influence on the work of Jacques Derrida.
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Visual rhetorical argumentation
TL;DR: The possibility and actuality of visual argumentation is partly explained by understanding argumentation as a cognitive and situational phenomenon, and partly by introducing the notion of symbolic condensation as discussed by the authors.
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Jews as Postcards, or Postcards as Jews: Mobility in a Modern Genre
TL;DR: The picture postcard is a concrete expression of mobility in modern times as mentioned in this paper and it can also serve as concrete indexes of the mobility of their documented senders and receivers, as a cultural practice.
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"We can remember it for you": location, memory, and commodification in social networking sites
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the spatial self through the performative aspects of location sharing and geotagging in the process of self-representation on social networking sites (SNSs).
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Revisiting the Puzzle Factory: Cultural Representations of Psychiatric Asylums
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the multivalent ways in which psychiatric asylum history is performed in the UK and the contribution such works make to the social history of madness is considered.