Indefinite identity: The masked terrorist as iconic legisign
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Azadehni Yamini-Hameda
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani (b. 1979) is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University 〈aya23@sfu.ca〉. Her research interests include world literature, translation, and semiotics. Her publications include “Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Between Persia and Greece” (2009); “L'incipit di una letteratura mondiale: Sulla vita die Goethe con Hafez” (2010); “Foundational metaphors: Goethe's world literature/Posnett's comparative literature” (2011); and “Nietzsche's eternal reoccurrence and the life of literature (2011).
Abstract
In the past decade over twelve thousand books and seventy-eight thousand scholarly articles have been written about terrorism. Less than 0.005% of these mention semiotics and only a handful actively explore the usefulness of a semiotic framework. These in turn concentrate either on the role of law (Skoll 2007; Ward 2009) or the influence of media in determining interpretants (Jaysane-Darr 2010; Lewis 2005). This study takes a different approach: in assuming that the terrorist relies on the spectacle of terrorism, it investigates through a Peircean framework the self-representation of the terrorist in the spectacle.
About the author
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani (b. 1979) is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University 〈aya23@sfu.ca〉. Her research interests include world literature, translation, and semiotics. Her publications include “Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Between Persia and Greece” (2009); “L'incipit di una letteratura mondiale: Sulla vita die Goethe con Hafez” (2010); “Foundational metaphors: Goethe's world literature/Posnett's comparative literature” (2011); and “Nietzsche's eternal reoccurrence and the life of literature (2011).
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- Frontmatter
- A semiotic model of visual perception
- Art, science, and value as found in Peirce's ten trichotomies
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- An early semiotic
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