A schema’s role is to mediate and adjudicate between human and machine semantics; recognizing this can help us manage our schemas better. Some practitioners work solely with an operational semantics, according to which the meaning of a tag is what we want it to cause the processing software to do with the data. A better understanding is reached if we adopt the structuralist view that a sign is ...

Recursion or self-reference is a key feature of contemporary research and writing in semiotics. The paper commences by focusing on the role of recursion in poststructuralism. It is suggested that much of what passes for recursion in this field is in fact not recursive all the way down. After the paradoxical meaning of radical recursion is adumbrated, topology is employed to provide some example...

This study utilizes theory from the Essex School of Ideology and Discourse Analysis (IDA) investigates speeches statements made by high-ranking European Union officials Commission as well policy documents. The inquiry reveals that antagonistic language was used to justify tracking tracing civilians through articulation an empty “track trace” signifier new identities premised on vaccinated non-v...

signifier of difference whose function—and this is crucial—is to give a per-

Two decades ago, in 1994, in the context of the 4(th) EU Framework Programme, ELSA was introduced as a label for developing and funding research into the ethical, legal and social aspects of emerging sciences and technologies. Currently, particularly in the context of EU funding initiatives such as Horizon2020, a new label has been forged, namely Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). What ...