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Re-presentation Policies of the Fashion Industry
The book studies the way the luxurious fashion develops re-presentational politics by reinvesting symbolic fields such as art and culture, religion and the sacred as well as politics, in other words fields that represent a certain common pattern of life and a common interest. I develop a semiotic approach of the way art exhibitions, print and audiovisual advertising, publishing and distribution politics as well as special ready to wear collaborations with arts such as Jeff Koons reveal the fashion industrys gesture of pretending being a non-commercial structure especially in order to cover up its industrialisation and banalization process
Being and the Screen
How digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive. Digital technologies are not just tools; they are structures of perception. They determine the way in which the world appears to us. For nearly half a century, technology has provided us with perceptions coming from an unknown world. The digital beings that emerge from our screens and our interfaces disrupt the notion of what we experience as real, thereby leading us to relearn how to perceive. In Being and the Screen, Stéphane Vial provides a philosophical analysis of technology in general, and of digital technologies in particular, that relies on the observation of experience (phenomenology) and t...
The Hybrid Face
This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face. The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face, exploring its biological and social functions, the concept of masks, the impact of COVID-19, AI systems, digital portraiture, symbolic faces in films, viral communication, alien depictions, personhood in video games, online intimacy, and digital memorials. The human face is increasingly living a life that is not only that of the biological body but also that of it...
Semiotics of Images
This book represents a unique collaborative effort to bring together the multiple aspects of the semiotics of images into a coherent approach based on Greimasian and post-Greimasian theory. Starting with a critical discussion of epistemological and theoretical issues and continuing with methodology and numerous examples of applied analysis, it aims to provide the educated reader with a consistent and unified theoretical framework for the semiotic study of visual cultural texts. It offers a comprehensive overview of the semiotics of static images such as painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, but also dynamic images such as cinema, animation and digital games. Readers will benefit from the special emphasis placed on the analysis of the pictorial signifier, visual syntax and the structuring of the semantic universe.
HCI International 2022 - Late Breaking Papers. Interaction in New Media, Learning and Games
This proceedings LNCS 13517 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which was held virtually as part of the 24th International Conference, HCII 2022, in June/July 2022. HCII 2022 received a total of 5583 submissions from academia, research institutes, industry, and governmental agencies from 88 countries submitted contributions, and 1276 papers and 275 posters were included in the proceedings that were published just before the start of the conference. Additionally, 296 papers and 181 posters are included in the volumes of the proceedings published after the conference, as “Late Breaking Work” (papers and posters). The contributions thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas.
The Social Semiotics of Populism
The concept of 'populism' is currently used by scholars, the media and political actors to refer to multiple and disparate manifestations and phenomena from across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. As a result, it defies neat definition, as scholarship on the topic has shown over the last 50 years. In this book, Sebastián Moreno Barreneche approaches populism from a semiotic perspective and argues that it constitutes a specific social discourse grounded on a distinctive narrative structure that is brought to life by political actors that are labelled 'populist'. Conceiving of populism as a mode of semiotic production that is based on a conception of the social spac...
Le design et le vivant
Sur quels desseins pratiques et éthiques se fondent les activités humaines qui façonnent nos milieux ? Quels en sont les effets concrets, existentiels sur les êtres vivants ? En quoi les activités humaines ont-elles à voir avec le design comme rencontre d'un dessin et d'un dessein ? En quoi le design questionne-t-il notre rapport à la Terre que nous habitons et qui nous habite ? Cet ouvrage interroge les choix éthiques qui nous amènent à designer le vivant, designer indifféremment au vivant, designer à rebours du vivant ou designer avec le vivant. Des choix qui se posent aujourd'hui à chaque habitant de la Terre et à chaque communauté. Partant d'une approche comparative entre le design permaculturel, les cultures paysannes et l'agriculture industrielle, Nicole Pignier questionne les liens entre cultures, agricultures, technologies. Dans une approche sémiotique des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication, elle met en exergue les liens entre perception et éthique au sein des activités de design.
Brand Equity Planning with Structuralist Rhetorical Semiotics
Brand Equity Planning with Structuralist Rhetorical Semiotics furnishes an innovative conceptual model and methodology for brand equity planning, with view to addressing a crucial gap in the existing marketing and semiotic literatures concerning how advertising multimodal textual elements may be transformed into brand associations, with an emphasis on rhetorical relata as modes of connectivity between a brand’s surface and depth grammar. The scope of this project is inter-disciplinary, spanning research areas such as brand equity, structuralist semiotics, textual semiotics, visual and film semiotics, multimodal rhetoric, Film theory, psychoanalysis. The proposed connectionist model of the brand trajectory of signification is operationalized through a methodological framework that encompasses a structuralist semiotic interpretative approach to the textual formation of brand equity, supported by quantitative content analysis with the aid of the software Atlas.ti and the application of multivariate mapping techniques.
Politiques de re-présentation de l’industrie de la mode
Banalisation de ses biens, pollution environnementale, délocalisation et exploitation de mains-d’oeuvre bon marché ou incitation à la surconsommation : ces traits caractérisent l’industrie de la mode de luxe, alors que le secteur ne cesse d’afficher des résultats économiques en hausse constante. Cet ouvrage interroge la façon dont les médiations de la mode de luxe marchand permettent à cette industrie de se présenter comme une instance qui ne serait pas exclusivement marchande. Ces médiations sont analysées en tant que politiques « re-présentationnelles » : des actions qui visent à produire du commun, mais aussi à instaurer un dispositif de visibilité permettant aux acteurs du luxe de se requalifier à partir des processus de réécriture, de réinvestissement et de reformulation. Politiques de re-présentation de l’industrie de la mode présente des analyses sémio-communicationnelles de nombreuses stratégies du secteur (publicités, expositions muséales, scénographies marchandes) et rend compte de la façon dont ces stratégies reflètent le modèle socio-économique de la mode de luxe.
