The signifier
Brahman and the Signifier (W)hole Being: The Subject of (Non-)Duality
... signification, the signifier is not the thing it signifies, but is rather the thing qua object reduced to its symbolic registration. The appearance of something, similarly, is never an actual totality of the thing ...
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The signifier returns to haunt the referent : blackface and the stereotyping of African Americans in Hollywood early sound film
... 24 into the early years of the twentieth century, African-American performers had to wear the minstrel mask, and at the same time largely restrict the nature of the entertainment they of[r] ...
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Vol 1, No 1 (2007)
... the signifier began to gain ascendancy over the signified in semiotics; textuality over meaning in literary analysis; indexicality over ex- pression in Derrida’s very first deconstructions of the phenomenological ...
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The Discrete Charm of Bureaucracy: a Lacanian Theory of the Bureaucratic Mechanism
... the signifier, by writing le signifiant maître as le signifiant m’être: this expresses, at the same time, the master’s illusion of autonomy and self-sufficiency, and also – by means of this self-reference of the ...
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The Syntropic History of Writing
... the signifier) - which will, because it radically improved performance and outcome of a behavior, become an inseparable constituent of every future similar ...
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The Paradox of Ideology, Identity, and Judgment: A Žižekian Analysis of Camus’ The Fall
... “key signifier” seems an impossibility, but it is this very impossibility that makes it possible to construct a ...The signifier exists in the Symbolic, but only insofar as it is impossible to actually ...
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A - A = a
... into the object the “identity element”? We know that this term is used in elementary mathematics. For example, in regard to the economy of addition, it is “0”. In the economy of multiplication, it is “1”. What is it in ...
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... the signifier, cannot operate as the minimal unit of language, which language is composed of so many units, one unit one unit one ...the signifier, is utter indifference, the “infinitely fragmented and ...
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Redemption and Representation in Goblin Market : Christina Rossetti and the Salvific Signifier
... have called the fundamentally semiotic character of Rossetti’s account, in Goblin Market, of the Eucharist. At stake in the doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ are the twin questions of the transferability of value, ...
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The Ontology of Crisis: The sublimity of objet petit a and the Master-Signifier
... 19 We can observe this operation through the above described formation of meaning through S1 and its dialectical overlap with objet a, which triggers the proliferation of the objects of desire. Since capitalism produces ...
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Femicide Penal Response in the Americas: Indicators and the Misuses of Crime Statistics, evidence from Peru
... the signifier “femicide” and the tensions within gender studies and criminal justice practices, tensions regarding its political dimension, which amount to a question of whether –in order to construct indicators- ...
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Signifying Grace: a reading of Lars Von Trier’s Dogville
... the signifier grace, tethered to the hegemonic regime of signifiers that determine its meaning to be consistent with forgiveness or charity, is dialectized, such that it becomes the opposite of how it had been ...
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Introduction: The Vibrant Village
... Giuseppe Troccoli calls for a similar open concep- tualisation of ‘the village’. His contribution is the only one in this issue not based on ethnographic research in a village; instead, Troccoli worked with builders in ...
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Can the Subaltern Speak at the WSF?
... a signifier that alludes to non-discoursified social practices and world views that are not taken into account in the academic discourses of moral philosophy ...
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Believing the News: Exploring How Young Canadians Make Decisions About Their News Consumption
... participants identified the source of the news story as the best signifier of the believability of a news event or breaking news story. Joseph explained: They’re [the mainstream news[r] ...
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Psychoanalytic Implications for the “Consulting Cure”
... Working from a pedagogy of the Analyst, a consultant would attempt to enable teachers to recognize those desires and aspects of their identity that divide them from assuming personal agency and producing knowledge on ...
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The Mediation of Cultural Identities: Changing Practices and Policies in Contemporary Turkey
... In the setting of the Cold War, the capacity to represent different cultural identities and minorities within European media systems has become a fundamental signifier of the level of de[r] ...
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Thesis
... The article goes on to claim that “women’s rugby stood as a signifier of the new feminist movement” (Shockley, Southern Women in the Scrums: The Emergence and Decline of Women's Rugby [r] ...
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Understanding the concept of meaning: a contrastive study of structuralist and post structuralist perspectives
... To him, meaning is a ‘linguistic form’ which emerges out of the speaker-hearer interaction, where the response of the hearer is directly grounded on the speaker’s stimulus in the form of phonetic unit. For the ...
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Glocalizing’ the Hijab: A Malaysian Perspective
... as signifier of female Muslims, the accessibility of the Internet played a key role in resonating the modern hijab as a form of self-expression in the minds of urban Malay-Muslim ...
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