Editorial
Attempts
to teach semiotics as a discipline in the institutional frameworks of
post-secondary education have met with mixed success. A few centers
of higher education and research, such as the prestigious Department
of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia,
have survived the test of time and a change of guard. Read more...
World Report
The Hyper Island school started in 1995 when
Jonathan Briggs, David Ericson and Lars Lundh met during a project
involving CD-ROM production. Read more...
Guest Column
From 19 to June 23, 2006, the International Communication Association (ICA) held its 56th Annual Conference in Dresden, Germany.
Cautiously phrased to be wide enough to cover almost anything under the sun, the theme of the meeting was “Networking, Communication,
and Research”. Read more...
State of the Art
Umberto Eco (1985, 109) has explained how the properties that a seme includes or implies in a specific text depends on the way a specific text either “magnetises” or “keeps under narcosis” the manifold “virtualities” of the seme used.
In Science Fiction this exercise in the actualisation or not of the virtualities of a seme is a more particularly delicate one and one well worth studying.
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(The text of the invitation is in both English and Chinese.)
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World Report
Brazilian universities have a recent history. Higher education started with the University of São Paulo in 1934, modeled according
to the French European system. Theory has always been a component integrated in teaching in the Humanities. Read more...
World Report
In June, Lucia Santaella opened her new Graduate Program Technologies of Intelligence and Digital Design at PUC, the Catholic University of São Paulo, with a congress on Technological Aesthetics, Wearable Computers and Games. Read more...
The Treasure Chest
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. By Eric R. Kandel.
Brain Arousal and Information Theory: Neural and Genetic Mechanisms. By Donald Pfaff.
Rhythms of the Brain. By György Buzsáki.
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