In this paper we discuss the semiotic functions of the psychological borders that structure the flow of narrative processes. Each narration is always a contextual, situated and contingent process of sensemaking, made possible by the creation of borders, such as dynamic semiotic devices that are capable of connecting the past and the future, the inside and the outside, and the me with the non-me...

Formulae are derived for the time-intensity relations for stimulation by direct currents using the following hypotheses: first, the current produces an excitatory effect whose rate of growth is proportional to the voltage; and second, the tissue reacts toward the normal state at a rate proportional to the amount of excitation. If p represents the local excitatory process numerically, the hypoth...

Building on ethnographic work on deceased organ donation in Spain, this paper supplements the concept of affectivity at the core of the emerging field of affect studies with a concept of liminality. The paper begins by focussing on relevant scenes in Pedro Almodóvar’s 1999 film “All about my mother”, using these as a spring-board to discuss the recent ‘turn to affect’ amongst social scientists ...