scholarly journals Transcendence and the Loss of the Semiotic Self

1989 ◽  
pp. 339-345
Author(s):  
Robert S. Corrington
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Self

Singer, Kant, and the Semiotic Self

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray J. Leaf
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Self

The Notion ‘Semiotic Self’ Revisited

1988 ◽  
pp. 189-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Sebeok
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Self

Trauma-Driven Abductions and the Semiotic Self

2014 ◽  
pp. 413-423
Author(s):  
Barry Stampfl
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Self

Textual Identity Bothering the Semiotic Self: Nina’s Alternating Identities in Black Swan

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiming Wen
Keyword(s):  
Black Swan ◽  
Semiotic Self

What is a semiotic ontolgy? The semiotic self as Dasein

Semiotica ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (150) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Egan
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Self

The Limits of the Semiotic Self

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
Donald J. Cunningham ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Self

The Semiotic Self

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-152
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Haney ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Self

scholarly journals Challenging identity: Lotman's "translation of the untranslatable" and Derrida's différance

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Monticelli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Closed System ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Cultural Formations ◽  
Semiotic Self ◽  
Mirror Structure

The concept of "cultural identity" has gradually replaced such discredited concepts as "race", "ethnicity", even "nationality" in the conservative political discourse of recent decades which conceives, represents and performs culture as a closed system with clear-cut boundaries which must be defended from contamination.The article employs the theories of Derrida and Lotman as useful tools for deconstructing this understanding of cultural identity, which has recently become an ideological justification for socio-political conflicts. In fact, their theories spring from a thorough critique of the kind of internalizing self-enclosure which allowed Saussure to delimit and describe langue as the object of linguistics. The article identifies and compares the elements of this critique, focusing on Derrida's and Lotman's concepts of "mirror structure", "binarism", "numerousness", "textuality" and "semiosphere". An understanding of mediation emerges which is not reducible to any kind of definitive acquisition, thereby frustrating the pretences of identity, constantly dislocating and deferring any attempt at semiotic self-enclosure. My comparison suggests that Lotman's "translation of the untranslatable" (or "dialogue") and Derrida's différance can be considered analogous descriptions of this problematic kind of mediation. The (de)constructive nature of culture, as described by Lotman and Derrida, challenges any attempt to view cultural formations as sources of rigid and irreducible identities or differences.

:The Semiotic Self

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-79
Author(s):  
Ralph H. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Self
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