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Metarepresentation, Self-organization and Art
This book is about the interrelationship between nature, semiosis, metarepresentation and (self-)consciousness, and the role played by metarepresentation in evolution. Representations must have emerged via self-organization from non-representational systems (found in physics, chemistry and biology). Major steps have been the evolution of molecules, macromolecules, life, and finally cultural and symbolic systems. Representations and signs are therefore parts of a huge, possibly branching «ladder of beings». Metarepresentations - images representing images, language about language and language-use, thoughts about thoughts - constitute a fascinating theme within such diverse areas of research...
How to Make Our Signs Clear
How to Make Our Signs Clear is the result of an international cooperation between European and Brazilian Peircean scholars (I. A. Ibri, E. Višňovský, C. Paolucci and others) and strives to dispel simplifications of Peirce ́s semiotic as well as to collect various insights into it and into its consequences for philosophy, especially philosophy of language, pragmatism and epistemology. The central theme of this book is the notion of the sign as a specific triadic relational unit, treated from various perspectives and applied to various fields of philosophy: semeiotic knowledge grows up from the discussions, common interests and possible conflicts between the readers of Peirce ́s works. This book does not offer a general overview of Peirce ́s theory of signs, but rather various analyses of consequences of some capacities of his semiotic.
Writing travel, writing life
The book compares the texts of three Swiss authors: Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nicolas Bouvier. The focus is on their trip from Genève to Kabul that Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach made together in 1939/1940 and Nicolas Bouvier 1953/1954 with the artist Thierry Vernet. The comparison shows the strong connection between the journey and life and between ars vivendi and travel literature. This book also gives an overview of and organises the numerous terms, genres, and categories that already exist to describe various travel texts and proposes the new term travelling narration. The travelling narration looks at the text from a narratological perspective that distingui...
Traveling Bodies
Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling. The case studies assembled in this volume discuss a variety of traveling practices, experiences, and media with chapters featuring Asian, American, and European historical and contemporary perspectives. Truly interdisciplinary in its approach, the volume identifies and examines diverse literary, historical and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which traveling and the body intersect, including ‘classic’ travelogues, (new) media (e.g., film, digital travel apps), surf culture, and travel-inspired tattoos. The contributions offer various avenues for further research, not only for scholars working with body theory and travel (writing), but also for anyone interested in the intersections of literature, culture, media, and embodied practices of traveling.
Science on Screen and Paper
During the Cold War, scientific discoveries were adapted and critiqued in many different forms of media across a divided Europe. Now, more than 30 years since the end of the Cold War, Science on Screen and Paper explores the intersections between scientific research and media by drawing from media history, film studies, and the history of science. From public relations material to educational and science films, from children’s magazines to television broadcasts, the contributions in this collected volume seek to embrace medial differences and focus on intersectional themes and strategies for the representation of science.
Self-Reference in the Media
This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their messages pretend to be and between the audience that they wish to inform, counsel, or entertain. The concept of self-reference is viewed very broadly. Self-reflexivity, metatexts, metapictures, metamusic, metacommunication, as well as intertextual, and intermedial references are all conceived of as forms of self-reference, although to different degrees and levels. The contributions focus on the semiotic foundations of reference and self-reference, discuss the transdisciplinary context of self-reference in postmodern culture, and exami...
Atlantic Automobilism
Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs ...
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Poetik des Nachrufs
Der Tod, der die Sterbenden endgultig zum Verstummen bringt, bringt dafur meist die Nachlebenden zum Reden. Die Typologie diskursiver Formen des Nachrufs, mit dem die Toten verabschiedet und die Weiterlebenden getrostet werden, ist vielfaltig. Allerdings ist der Totendiskurs je nach Kontext streng geregelt: was uber den Toten zu sagen ist, wie und von wem, ist nicht beliebig, sondern untersteht jeweils expliziten und impliziten Regulierungen. Die Literatur kann unter Berufung auf die Freiheit der Fiktion mit diesen Regeln anders umgehen. Wie die Literatur uber die Toten spricht, steht somit in spezifischer Funktion zum asthetischen Code. Dies wird vor allem in den dramatischen Genres deutlich, die den Tod des Helden in Szene setzen. Dabei erhalt die Totenrede auf die Protagonisten einen dramaturgisch prominenten Ort im ganzen Stuck, fur dessen Sinnkonstitution sie eine entscheidende Rolle spielt.
Digital Humanities in der internationalen Schulbuchforschung
Der Einzug digitaler Techniken in die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung bringt neue Chancen, aber auch Herausforderungen mit sich. Dieser Band beleuchtet, welche Projekte das Georg-Eckert-Institut entwickelt, um die Potentiale der Digital Humanities für die Schulbuchforschung zu erkunden und nutzbar zu machen. Wie werden Daten akquiriert und aufbereitet? Wie Informationen daraus gewonnen? Wie werden diese zugänglich gemacht und zur Nachnutzung zur Verfügung gestellt? Zu Wort kommen neben den Entwicklerinnen und Entwicklern digitaler Forschungsinfrastrukturen auch diejenigen, die die Anwendungen nutzen.
