Critical Semiotics: Theory, from Information to Affect

by Gary Genosko

Book Overview

Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to have diminished meaning or even no meaning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472596366
• ISBN13: 9781472596369
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"