Bringing the world into the world’
The material semiotics of contemporary culture
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12848321 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Celia Lury (0000-0001-7630-5597, University of Warwick, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2012 |
| Volumen | 13 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 247-260 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Distinktion Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1600-910X • E-ISSN: 2159-9149 |
| Editorial | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1600910x.2012.728144 |
| OpenAlex | W2074537371 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 9 |
| Referencias citadas | 18 |
This article puts forward the claim that culture is becoming topological. Rather than using topological concepts to analyze and interpret contemporary culture, it is suggested that the distinctively topological ‘abstractions’ of ordering and continuity of transformation now organize the movement of forms of social life such that constant change is normalized. This claim is supported by a discussion of the material semiotics of contemporary culture, which makes use of the Peircian framework of signs as icons, indices, and symbols to explore the changing qualities of live(li)ness as they are produced in processes of practical abstraction. The effect of these processes is to expand modes of relating, and in particular to intensify the importance of comparison as a social relation. Topological culture is thus presented as the introduction of new continuities into a discontinuous world and the making and marking of discontinuities through repeated contrasts; both are shown to emerge in the contemporary proliferation of modes of relating made possible by changes in the composition of a mixed sign-system
Abstraction · Aesthetics · Art · Composition (language · Constant (computer programming · Epistemology · Linguistics · Relation (database · Semiotics · Semiotics of culture · Sign (mathematics · Sociology · Topology (electrical circuits · Computer Science · Mathematics · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Semiotics and Representation Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Radical Graphics
Citizenship and Identity in the Age of Surveillance
The Neoliberal Subject of Value
Pandemics and 'Zombies
Hacia una sociología de la abstracción
Dispositivo de evaluación y gubernamentalidad del sistema educacional
The difference a method makes
Watery friction
The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification
Art And Agency
Markets from Networks
The Sense of Dissonance
Numerische Differenz. Überlegungen zu einer Soziologie des (quantitativen) Vergleichs / Numerical Difference. Toward a Sociology of (Quantitative) Comparisons
The Imaginary Institution of Society
The Elementary Structures of Kinship
Europe as Borderland
A Semiotics of the Public/Private Distinction
The eruption of tradition
Afterword
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Introduction
The Culture of Abstraction
Lists come alive
Movement-space
| Obras citantes distintas | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,69 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 8 |