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Semiosphere
About: Semiosphere is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 219 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2698 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the peasantry incited by Muscovite spirits has started to rebel and riot overtly: / They sharpening knives and loading guns, / Reforging and gearing up spears; / They’re claiming arrogantly in our vicinity / That they’ll sift out tares from wheat.
Abstract: Matters have reached a point / Where we’re deprived of all hope for hope. / Peasantry incited by Muscovite spirits / has started to rebel and riot overtly: / They’re sharpening knives and loading guns, / Reforging and gearing up spears; / They’re claiming arrogantly in our vicinity / That they’ll sift out tares from wheat.1 / Confessions of detainees prove / That the peasantry has determined a rendezvous / To slaughter us on the very day of Easter. / Oh, for God’s sake, why is there no rescue for us / From you? You keep promising it, / but in effect bring none.2
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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of the relation between literature and art is presented, with a focus on the concept of "work's originality" in the contemporary semiosphere.
Abstract: AimThe present paper aims at highlithing the new dynamics of comparison and exchange between literature and arts. It assumes the idea of a literature centred on the relations between text and context, bent on exhalting its "social" disposition. Then it deals with the subject of the work's originality in terms of identitary pact constantly renegotiated with works belonging to other semiologic themes. In this perspective, this article briefly investigates the complex relation between Don De Lillo's and Jean-Luc Godard's works.MethodologyThe analytic approach moves between comparative literature and cultural criticism, in a very well-known field in the area of traditional literary studies and a very important sector in the structuration of contemporary imaginary: the relation between literature and cinema. The methodology adopted employs the comparative dynamics typical of text semiotcs, to underline exchange categories, among different languages and codes, which prove to be flowing, open and constantly changing.ResultsThe article highlights and explores new possibilities in the relation between cinema and literature, investigating them on the basis of the present observations on the notion of text; it also explains the urgency of a semantic reassessment of the concept of "work's originality" in the contemporary semiosphere.
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25 Mar 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define fractals as similarities between two topological structures, and propose a typology of fractal similarities, based on the topological operations of rotation, translation, and reflection.
Abstract: The article points out that the current expansion of the semiotic focus from signs and texts to whole cultures needs the development of a coherent method. It therefore proposes to establish the method through an application of the topological theory of fractals to the analysis of different kinds of symmetries in the semiosphere. Having defined fractals as resemblance between two topological structures, the article first dwells on what “ resemblance” means in the comparison of both visual and conceptual patterns; it then proposes a typology of fractal similarities, based on the topological operations of rotation, translation, and reflection. Examples of each typology are given from the fields of cultural and political analysis. The article concludes by hypothesizing that cultural semiotics might evolve into a “ pattern science”, challenging the customary disciplinary barriers between the study of regularities in nature and in culture.
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