Beyond meaning
Skeuomorphy and the mediation of Shang things
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Campbell (0000-0002-4614-0055, East Asian Archaeology and History, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, NY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 376-394 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.2021.1930132 |
| OpenAlex | W3169519818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
Not only does the ontological turn not necessarily imply a turn away from semiotics but that rethought as systems of mediation, semiotics are both a necessary aspect of ontological analysis and necessarily reshaped by the endeavour. At the same time, if the 'decentering of the human' implied by a turn to things and to ontology has tended to 'reassemble the social' apolitically as well as symmetrically, at least in archaeology, this is not due to a lack of potential. In this article I will investigate the ontology and semiotics of Shang visual culture and its participation in structuring and manifesting local hierarchies of being. I will use the phenomenon of skeumorphy to both problematize common Western assumptions about the nature of representation and to explore early Chinese patterns of power and mediation
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Mediation · Ontology · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Semiotics · Social science · Social semiotics · Sociology · Structuring · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy
Art And Agency
The Politics of the Past in Early China
How Forests Think
Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning
The fame of Gawa
Shang Archaeology
The Ancestral Landscape
ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese
How Forests Think
Beyond Nature and Culture
Das Alte China
Making Connections
Art, Myth, and Ritual
The Ways of Confucianism
On Semiotic Ideology
Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State
Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America
Consumption, exchange and production at the Great Settlement Shang
Colour Terms in Shang Oracle Bone Inscriptions
The Perception of the Environment
Tastes of Talk
Introduction
On Dicentization
Skeuomorphs, Pottery, and Technological Change
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |