Species of Espaces and other spurious concepts addressed to reading the invisible features of signs within systems of relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12922182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johanna Drucker (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-153 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Design and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-7075 • E-ISSN: 1754-7083 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/175470710x12696138525541 |
| OpenAlex | W2039769561 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article proposes that signs and signage systems be understood as part of enunciative systems. These in turn perform according to different models of cultural space that are layered into the built environment. Signs might be conceived in terms of circulation, movement, spatial ordering, point of view and sight lines, as well as ideas about how social relations are spatially organized, how privacy is understood, where legal and personal boundaries exist and why, and also notions of style, scale and all the many cultural notions of power and control that these embody. Reading signs back into patterns of cultural life reveals more than their value as icons or material artifacts; it reveals the ways models of cultural order were constituted through their material, spatial, expression. The piece lays out a multi-part framework for thinking about the various scopic regimes within which space has been understood and signage established: monumental space, navigational approaches, civic notions of public address, bibliographic concepts, cartographic, theatrical, moral reform, political action, models of traffic flows and circulation, and other spatialized schemes of linguistic and visual enunciation.KEYWORDS: signssignageenunciationmodels of spacecultural systemsspatial organizationinscriptionsbillboards
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Expression (computer science · Linguistics · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sight · Signage · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |