"Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining …
Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining o…
In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory views cu…
"A new approach to digital culture and how it makes meaning, mediation and planetary impact"--
A semiotic theory of spheres -- A short history of globes -- Juri Lotman and cultural semiotics -- 'Inside thinking worlds' -- Dialogue and dynamics -- Cultural semiotics in a multidisciplinary environment -- What does culture want? -- Text, transmission, translation -- Text, cr…
"It is only since global media and digital communications became accessible to ordinary populations – with Telstar, jumbo jets, the pc and mobile devices – that humans have been able to experience their own world as planetary in extent. What does it mean to be one species on one…
"A new approach to digital culture and how it makes meaning, mediation and planetary impact"--
"A new approach to digital culture and how it makes meaning, mediation and planetary impact"--
