On Insignificance
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aesthetics
Alternative Potential Decisions
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Author_Massimo Leone
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Contemporary Societies
cultural interpretation
cultural semiotics
culture studies
digital age
digital alienation
Digital Conversation
digital era meaning crisis
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digitalization
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Product details
- ISBN 9781138618312
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the most perturbing patterns of insignificance that have seeped into our everyday lives. Seeking to explain the semiotic causes of feelings of meaninglessness, Leone posits that caring for the singularities of the world is the most viable way to resist the alienating effects of the digital bureaucratization of meaning. The book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, semiotics, aesthetics, communication studies, and social theory.
Massimo Leone is Full Professor of Cultural Semiotics at the University of Turin, Italy, and a Visiting Full Professor of Semiotics at Shanghai University, China.
