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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 193–207.
Published: 01 April 2012
... Mad Love — which Czechs know better as Letohrádek Hvězda at Bílá hora, the White Mountain — as a signifier whose wanderings, over the period, encapsulate the mutual myths and misunderstandings that were constitutive of this most poignant of surrealist love affairs. The essay ends by suggesting...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 236–252.
Published: 01 April 2015
... or at best allow harm to endure. In this discourse, social disruption must act as signifier for more general (structural and systemic) violence—but then is repressed on exactly the same terms, making it difficult to arrive at solutions for conflict on the ground without renouncing calls for justice...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (3): 368–421.
Published: 01 August 2021
...” of the “great mystery” of the Incarnation, Milton argues in De Doctrina Christiana , should encourage the reader's mind to stand on “guard from the outset” against the tendency to make “rash or hasty assertions.” The urge to tamper with, pry into, add to, or hasten to understand the signifiers of divine meaning...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 176–251.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the tension between the subjective and collective spheres, thus contributing to the refinement of the civitas mundi , where material crosses are knocked down, into the civitas Dei , where outward signs signify a godly signified found elsewhere, both internally and transcendently. As the speaker shifts...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 201–202.
Published: 01 May 2024
... practices in Japan.” Japanese parcels are his favorite example of this overabundance of the signifier—a case where the envelope outshines the item inside. The signifier so overwhelms the signified that it displaces the very longing for meaning. For Han, “ the liturgy of emptiness dispels the capitalist...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of the pagan rhetorical traditions against which Augustine s the- ory of signification was a reaction. The first theories of signs in ancient Greece related to divination and used the term semeion to signify divinatory signs, includ- ing the verbal statements of oracles.5 As Émile Benveniste and Raymond Bloch...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (1): 18–32.
Published: 01 January 2007
..., postmodernists This and meanings. depths resisting while andsimulacra, traces signifiers, and it is thing open to superficially. The individualpostmodern appreciates surfaces The postmodern sensibility is famously but open perceivesto everything every Postmodern Symptoms 10 History and MD...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 419–432.
Published: 01 August 2012
... Perl • Fuzzy Studies: Part 3 421 4 in scare quotes to indicate that which is signified. Hubert Hubert signified. is which that indicate to quotes scare in word the he puts and denotation, for italics he uses slashes; forward between word...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 367–403.
Published: 01 August 2010
...-garde in theory today is to develop a “negative semiotics”: a semiotics of nonsigns, modeled on negative (apophatic) theology. Duke University Press 2010 “ ” Mikhail Epstein Medium and Margin: The Reversal I offer a new sign that signifies the absence of any sign and is conveyed...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 411–423.
Published: 01 August 2013
...   object the to attached so still   object its emancipating and representation at shattering aimed ofdisfiguration act an not signify Itdoes withdrawal. as opposite the so much not it signifies rather, Or undoing. effacement, reverse...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 90–125.
Published: 01 January 2018
...' that conclude They subsequently.º only dialogue into enter but start the from dialogized not are that entities whole as texts and systems; as self the and language signified, to ofsignifier opposition the ª as such terms,º attendant its and ofstructuralism heritage the ª...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 375–392.
Published: 01 August 2005
... these Among resonance. temporary signifi and relevance historical were of universal past national English of the installments particular that claimed historians these Instead empire. its longof heyday the during it been had nation global the as about Britain writing World...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 331–335.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... speak silencewould their they in poverty; shoeless would feetships;with they signify slave from thrown and lynched been had who gone thousands nameless the of would signify the deaths of those leaders like King who had been they assassinatednecks their and around beads...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 181–196.
Published: 01 April 2009
... , reveals a signifier operating in the shadowthe of in operating signifier a reveals...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 312.
Published: 01 May 2016
... American and hereGerman by ranged essays The expressively. shrug and photography digital by available easily made ofinformation mass overwhelming hand- cant, signifi selected forbears editorial our Where task. ofthe magnitude about the honesty fervid newand with text medieval...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 321–334.
Published: 01 April 2011
... —  signified not choreography but movement. The notion of cho of The notion but movement. choreography not signified What Is Dance? Is What Le désoeuvrement chorégraphique. chorégraphique. désoeuvrement Le (Paris: Editions de Pléla Editions (Paris...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 530–550.
Published: 01 August 2013
... signifier for organized sound. 1.  Elias Canetti, The Play of the Eyes, trans. Ralph Man- heim (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1986), 316. 2. Canetti, Play of the Eyes, 316 – 17. Common Knowledge 19:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2281819­ © 2013 by Duke University Press 530...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 439–440.
Published: 01 August 2020
... plau- sible; and it is not always clear whether similarity signifies influence and in which direction the influence, if any, flowed. Still, it is good to be reminded that the image of a pure Greek tradition feeding into European literature is a quasi- racist construction, both ancient and modern...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 438–439.
Published: 01 August 2020
...- sible; and it is not always clear whether similarity signifies influence and in which direction the influence, if any, flowed. Still, it is good to be reminded that the image of a pure Greek tradition feeding into European literature is a quasi- racist construction, both ancient and modern...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 502–513.
Published: 01 August 2005
... “extendedselves,” these and with selves” “private comparing is For Strawson Neisser’s in terms—irrelevant. wethink is—if tance or signifi impor- own oftheir asense by not “motivated are lives about their narratively, than rather episodically, whothink those that is of Episodicity...