ROLAND BARTHES E A ANATOMIA PALIMPSÉSTICA

Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes

In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ri...

Christina Bohk, Roland Rau & Joel E. Cohen

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Taylor’s law (TL) typically describes a linear relationship between the logarithm of the variance and the logarithm of the mean of population densities. It has been verified for many non-human species in ecology, and recently, for Norway’s human population. In this article, we test TL for human mortality. METHOD We use death counts and exposures by single age (0 to 100)...

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Roland Bluhm

The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential benefit of corpus analysis, a (partly) empirical method from linguistics, for philosophy� ‘Corpus analysis’ is not only the name of the method, but also a rough description of it, because the method consists in analysing data taken from linguistic text corpora� In linguistics, using such text corpora is an established practice� A fair number of ...

Embodied in a Metaverse: “Anatomia” and “body parts”

In this paper, the artist/author wishes to examine corporeality in the virtual realm, through the usage of the (non)-physical body of the avatar. Two sister art installations created in the virtual world of Second Life®, both of which are meant to be accessed with site specific avatars, will provide the creative platform whereby this investigation is undertaken. While the installation “Anatomia...