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	Semiotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Semiotics - also known as semiology - is the study of signs, both individually and grouped in sign systems, and includes the study of how meaning is transmitted and understood.
		Semiotics theorises at a general level about signs, while the study of the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics.
		To explain the relationship between Semiotics and Communication Studies, communication is defined as the process of transfering data from a source to a receiver as efficiently and effectively as possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semiotics (1483 words)

	Beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Beauty is also a quark (subatomic particle) flavor (the name of an attribute of quarks), and the name of a kind of quark of that flavor.
		Beauty is the phenomenon of the experience of pleasure, through the perception of balance and proportion of stimulus.
		Understanding the nature and meaning of beauty is one of the key themes in the philosophical discipline known as aesthetics.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Beautiful_people (1099 words)

	Sexual attraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One idea of physical beauty regarding the breasts of women is that the best shape approaches the shape of a three dimensional parabola (which is called a Paraboloid of revolution) as opposed to a hyperbola, or a sphere.
		Conversely, the shape of the buttocks of an attractive person (male or female) tends to resemble the shape of a cardioid, which is the inverse transform of a parabola.
		Often, women with long hair are thought to appear more beautiful, as the ability to grow long, healthy looking hair is an indication of continuous health of an individual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sexual_attraction (1554 words)

	Semiotics and Western Painting
		[1] The study of the nature and use of the individual components of either a pictorial or written language - the signifiers and signifieds - is known as Semiotics.
		To illustrate the use of the semiotic approach to the study of paintings, I'll draw from the analysis of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907.
		This is a part of what we have called the ideological aspect of representation and forms the semiotic background against which Les Demoiselles d'Avignon must be understood.
	homepage.newschool.edu /~quigleyt/vcs/semiotics.html (1751 words)

	BEAUTY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The poet Edna_St._Vincent_Millay wrote that "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare" in an allusion to the austere beauty many people have found in the reasoning in the geometer Euclid's ''Elements''.
		Beauty_contests claim to be able to judge beauty.
		Another recent study contends that not only are physically beautiful people ''perceived'' to be more intelligent than unattractive others, there is evidence to support the belief that they actually ''are'' more intelligent.
	www.witwib.com /index.php?s=beauty (1101 words)

	Bridging Nature and Culture in Cultural Semiotics
		The term “semiotics of culture”; was invented by the Tartu school, to describe the study of all semiotical systems present in a culture or, alternatively, some kind of regularity mechanism organising the semiotic systems as they are individuated in a culture.
		First of all, semiotics of culture is about the model members of a culture have of their own culture (and, by implication, of other cultures).
		If semiotics of culture has a sense, it must be able to construct models of such present-time auto-models as information society, post-industrial society, the society of pictures, the waning of modernity/Postmodernity, etc., and show their importance in the development of our culture.
	www.arthist.lu.se /kultsem/sonesson/CultSem1.html (2182 words)

	Philip Tagg \| Introductory Notes to the Semiotics of Music (1999 version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One major problem has of course been that most semiotic studies of music have been carried out on European art music with all that such study entails by way of adhering to a canon of acceptable composers whose works have been given the institutional seal of everlasting value.
		The main conclusions of this discussion are that definitions of musical structure must, in a semiotic context, be based on information from both the transmitting and receiving ends of the musical communication process, but that structural elements identified on the transmitting side are not necessarily musical signifiers.
		The second reason for underlining the importance of interobjective procedures in the semiotic analysis of music is that the establishment of structural recurrence leads to the collection of a body of structurally similar musical works, some of which may share common traits other than structural similarity.
	www.tagg.org /html/semiotug.html (17133 words)

	Paul Nervy Notes
		A deflationary view of beauty: Perfect physical beauty, and beauty in general, is on the same level as gastronomy.
		Beauty is in the eye of the beholder vs. classic beauty spans time and place.
		In humans the "beauty instinct" evolved over millions of years in relation to determining which members of the opposite sex are most suitable to reproduce with.
	www.paulnervy.com /pnn077.html (2760 words)

	Aesthetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική meaning a perceiver or sensitive) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty.
		The word aesthetics was first used by German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, who helped to establish the study of aesthetics as a separate philosophical field of study.
		Sometimes mathematicians describe mathematics as an art form or, at a minimum, as a creative activity.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Aesthetics (917 words)

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		David Pollack summarizes decades of Japanese nationalistic semiotics, centered on the use of the dichotomy opposing Japanese spirit and foreign cultures, when he writes that the Japanese language is “almost entirely antithetical” from the Chinese (Pollack 1986: 4-5), thus reiterating a rhetoric of uniqueness.
		Semiotics has also been put at the service of Japanese cultural essentialism, as in a recent essay by Ikegami Yoshihiko on the semiotics of Japanese culture from the perspective of Barthes’s idea of the “empty center” (Ikegami 1991).
		However, the goal of the esoteric Buddhist semiotics is that of eliminating the boundaries between language and reality, mind and matter, thought and action, to dissolve the human subject into a microcosm of the universe.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/cyber/ram8.html (8935 words)

	Postmodernism
		Given a choice between two dichotomous ideals, works of postmodernism tend to emphasize the ideal that in modernism was considered subordinate or inferior.
		Utopian ideals of universally applicable truths or aesthetics give way to provisional, decentered, local petit recits which, rather than referencing an underlying universal truth or aesthetic, point only to other ideas and cultural artifacts, themselves subject to interpretation and re-interpretation.
		Heidegger and Derrida were influential in re-examining the fundamentals of knowledge, together with the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his philosophy of action, Soren Kierkegaard's and Karl Barth's important fideist approach to theology, and even the nihilism of Nietzsche's philosophy.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/postmodernism (3415 words)

	Semiotics for Beginners: Glossary
		Semiotic redefinitions of genre tend to focus on the way in which the formal features of texts within the genre draw on shared codes and function to 'position' readers using particular modes of address.
		Idealism (subjectivism): A philosophical (specifically epistemological) stance on 'what is real?' in which, in its extreme form, it is argued that reality is purely subjective and is constructed in our use of signs.
		Idealism is most strongly opposed by materialists, who associate it with essentialism because a notion of humanity as a pre-given essence is based on 'transcendental consciousness' as the source of meaning.
	www.aber.ac.uk /media/Documents/S4B/sem-gloss.html (10768 words)

	perofappear
		This ideology, represented by beauty ideals, is a symbolic representation of cultural attitudes toward women.
		Joseph is a sociologist who uses the concepts of semiotics to help explain the process of communication rather than a semiologist dedicated to a strict interpretation of signs.
		Ideal images are literally created; while they were formerly created through makeup and airbrushing, now these images are computer generated.
	amdt.wsu.edu /classes/salusso/MediaWebsite/03socpsych/perofappear.htm (3021 words)

	20th WCP: Semiotics of Human Body and Character: Aristotle's Logical Foundation of Physiognomics
		Yet, concentrating solely on the formal logical analysis, Aristotle does not touch the central point of physiognomics; it C. Peirce’s discovery of the triadic relation of the sign that was able to shed new light on this central problem and to see physiognomics as a process of semiosis.
		In Archaic Greece, for instance, this human ideal is personified in the statue-type of the naked male youth or in Homeric heroes like Achilles, Hector and Odysseus, and he is still alive in the heroes of sports and movies of our time.
		These two approaches can be correlated with two major semiotic theories of physiognomics which I have connected with the names of Aristotle and Peirce: For it was Aristotle who provided physiognomics with a solid logical foundation in describing its syllogistic structure and discussing its logical presuppositions.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciVogt.htm (1605 words)

	semiotics of ads
		Semiotics is a method for examining textual material.
		The semiotic analysis of advertising assumes that the meanings are designed by their creators to shape and lend significance to our reality.
		The semiotic analysis of signs and codes within advertisements reveals the mythic structures of meanings that the ads work to communicate.
	dlibrary.acu.edu.au /research/lit/theory_history/..\theory_history\semioticsadvert.htm (889 words)

	picture perfect
		According to contemporary semiotic theory, the words that one uses in language are signs, which can be broken down into three component parts: the referent, the signified, and the signifier.
		Her looks are just as unrealistic as those of the mannequins as she perpetuates another beauty myth that, in order to be beautiful, a woman must be curvy and yet slim, have blond hair and blue eyes.
		The manner in which this image portrays ideals of beauty alienates the subject from the audience since the image portrays ideal images, not realistic ones.
	donecol3.blogspot.com (3337 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Uncontrollable Beauty is filled with exciting essays by artists, critics, curators, and philosophers whose definitions of this elusive quality are often at odds with the Platonic ideal.
		When beauty besets critic Peter Schjeldahl, his mind is "hyperalert," his body eases, and he is often aware of his "shoulders coming down as unconscious muscular tension lets go." Renowned sculptor Louise Bourgeois also experiences beauty as opposed to encountering it: "Beauty is a series of experiences.
		He teaches Semiotics and Film at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the editor for the Aesthetics Today series from Allworth Press.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/1581151969/reviews (1211 words)

	Articles - Beauty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Most people find beauty in nature, despite it sometimes being "red in tooth and claw" (Tennyson).
		+ 1 = 0 is commonly considered one of the most beautiful theorems in mathematics (see Euler's identity).
		With the close of the 1960s, the concept of beautiful people gradually came to encompass fashionistas and the "hip" people of New York City, expanding to its modern definition.
	www.poncier.com /articles/Beauty (933 words)

	Jean-François Lyotard [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		For Lyotard semiotics is a prime example of representational nihilism, because the definition of the sign is that it replaces something (negating that which it replaces).
		One of its sides (or potentialities) is the semiotic sign; this side is the potential to be inscribed in an existing structure of meaning.
		On the one hand Lyotard criticises the dehumanising effects of the progress of science and technology that are themselves bound up with the idea of human progress, and on the other he affirms the dehumanising forces that open up our thinking to more than a simple definition of the human.
	www.iep.utm.edu /l/Lyotard.htm (13557 words)

	Romanic Review: Beauty Raises the Dead. Literature and Loss in the Fin de Siecle
		Fundamentally, we may speak of absent mothers and of unhappily weaned infants, of matricide, idealization and substitution, but we meet the configurations of loss and alienation at every level of the Decadent experience.
		With the aid of some Melanie Klein (and a brief background check on Rachilde's relation to her mother and Lorrain's to Madame Duval), the reader can be understood to be a certain projection of the mother, albeit "a baleful counterpart of the mother" (p.
		The mother is an ideal to be mourned as lost, and yet she is also one who prompts angry feelings of abandonment, one to be wrathfully gestured away, if not 'killed.' The reader becomes something like the dummy stand-in for a furiously rhetorical address to an absent mother...
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3806/is_200111/ai_n9014469 (1389 words)

	Designing Visuals - Readings
		Apparently uninterested in the social implications of his actions, Salle does not address whether his presence disturbed or frightened the girls, but concludes with a kind of aestheticized nihilism: 'I don't know what it was I wanted, because you can't go home with them.
		For while many of her images support a narrowly feminist reading, the cumulative effect of her work is to draw our attention to a key social fact of life in media-ridden culture...
		Semiotics and the delicious slipperiness of signifiers have given way to history and anthropology (in citations of Michel Foucault and Claude Levi-Strauss) along with frankly political analysis of Nazi Germany and the American Supreme Court.
	www.itecksu.org /courses/desvisweb/pages/identity.htm (7615 words)

	: : : song from a distant planet - BOOKS : : : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It's obvious that he's a writer with an ideal in mind, someone who believes in the soul and in beauty and is at war against the reductivists and the redacts.
		Helprin's approach to truth is usually beautiful in its bittersweet idealism and longing.
		It was artistically crafted, with the perspective changing on a chapter-by-chapter basis, and whip-creamed by having one chapter be from the viewpoint of Stalin's dog.
	david.shackelford.org /books.php3 (1985 words)

	Jonathan Edwards
		e., in "regularity." The beauty of well-ordered societies, of "wisdom...consisting in the united tendency of thoughts, ideas, and particular volitions to one general purpose," of the natural fitness of actions and circumstances (having made a promise, for example, and keeping it), "of a building, of a flower, or of the rainbow" are examples.
		Moreover, he is the "foundation and fountain of all beauty." "All the beauty to be found throughout the whole creation is...the reflection of the diffused beams of that being who hath an infinite fullness of brightness and glory." (True Virtue, 1765; Edwards 1957-, vol.
		Their love is the basis of a new "spiritual sense" whose "immediate object" is "the beauty of holiness" -- a "new simple idea" that can't "be produced by exalting, varying or compounding" ideas "which they had before," and that truly "represents" divine reality.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/edwards (6896 words)

	Eco - Works: General Nonfiction
		Many of the essays are actually quite humorous as well as insightful, and as usual Eco manages to serve up his ideas through a witty use of satirical analysis and overinterpretation coupled with a sly sense of irreverent and occasionally backhanded humor.
		While closely examining the development of the visual arts and drawing on works of literature from each era, Eco broadens his enquiries to consider a range of concepts, including the idea of love, the unattainable woman, natural inspiration versus numeric formulas, and the continuing importance of ugliness, cruelty, and even the demonic.
		Semiotics – All works on semiotics, including chapters and contributions.
	www.themodernword.com /eco/eco_works_nonfiction.html (2874 words)

	- Leena-Maija Rossi, Masculine women — viable forms of media representation?
		These ideal gender images are often extreme in their expression, and unattainable in the real world.
		The visual realm of these commercials is dense with representations of heterosexual romance and bodies signifying “ideal beauty,” or “handsomeness;” men and women fulfilling each other’s dreams, while of course simultaneously consuming the marketed products.
		The sartorial semiotics of her looks consists of garments which could just as well cover a male body: a vest, shorts, and a simple white shirt.
	www.women.it /cyberarchive/files/rossi.htm (5648 words)

	www.semioticsireland.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The structural discrimination against Catholics in Britain is sad in a country which has given so much genius and beauty to the world, but ultimately, sad is only sad and we can usually cope in some way or another with sad.
		I understand that it wouldn't be a brilliant political tactic in England to proclaim your Irish roots, but it is not only a sad reflection on integrity and principle to see decent, grown men (if they have Irish roots), having to go around saying that, whatever they are, they are not Catholics.
		Semiotics does not allow you to pick and choose in how you excuse or condemn violence, I’m afraid; it is repugnantly democratic (in this and in everything else, and this is why a semiotic attitude is essential in every field of study).
	webpages.dcu.ie /~croghanm/viol_9.htm (1977 words)

	Sociology Semiotics Fashion History
		How we perceive the beauty or ugliness of our bodies is dependant on cultural attitudes to physiognomy.
		The accepted beautiful female form that Rubens painted is subliminally undesirable nowadays, if we are to be thought beautiful in a way that the majority accepts in the 21
		One of the most favoured forms of semiotic distinction is fashion, because fashionable clothes, accessories and body adornment are easy for others to observe at glance.
	www.fashion-era.com /sociology_semiotics.htm (2650 words)

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