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Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history — the counter-current of signs
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Eero Tarasti
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February 12, 2009
Abstract
This article focuses on ‘resistance’ and the role that semiotics has to play in it. It posits resistance through the lens of ‘existential semiotics’ (Tarasti, Existential Semiotics, Indiana University Press, 2000), based on Greimas but also including a lineage comprising Bergson, Aron, von Wright, Ricoeur and Elias, and ultimately back to Hegel in mapping the logics of ‘transcendence’. As illustrative cases, the essay analyses the aesthetics of resistance in painting, print fiction and music. It also seeks to shed light on the theoretical co-ordinates of the phenomenon of globalization.
Published Online: 2009-02-12
Published in Print: 2009-February
© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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Keywords for this article
resistance;
existentialism;
globalization;
transcendence;
Dasein;
causality
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- Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history — the counter-current of signs
- Political semiotics
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- Ten theses on perception in terms of work: A Rossi-Landian/Wittgensteinian point of view
- The social semiotics of space: Metaphor, ideology, and political economy
- Modernity and the articulation of the gender system: Order, conflict, and chaos
- Collective remembering
- The socio-symbolic function of language
- Observations on the structure and function of communicative genres
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- The world according to Playmobil
- Language and globalization
- Semiotics as semioethics in the era of global communication
- Preface
- Exchange and subjectivity, commodity, and gift
- Subjectivity out of irony
- Subjectivity and objectivity in the domain of POSSESSION
- A theory of psychosomatic medicine: An attempt at an explanatory summary
- The subject and the indexicality of the photograph
- Blade Runner's blade runners
- ‘For crying out loud’: The repression of the child's subjectivity in ‘The House of Tiny Tearaways’
- Playing the system: Videogames/players/characters
- Subjects and reading strategies in hypermedia: The re-emergence of the author
