Beyond Semiotics
Text, Culture and Technology

This title provides an approach to three interdependent concepts of text, culture and technology, in order to show what semiotics had always had to marginalize, forget or not see in the quest to professionalize itself.

Beyond Semiotics provides an approach to these three interdependent concepts, in order to show what semiotics has always had to marginalize, forget or not see in the quest to professionalize itself. Meanwhile, outside the limitation of any discipline, the secular mysteries of text, culture and technology continue to call for a response - with the aim of not laying bare the truth, but of opening up the sign. Niall Lucy is Senior Lecturer in English at Murdoch University, Australia. He is author of Debating Derrida (Melbourne University Press, 1995), Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introdcution (Blackwell, 1997) and editor of Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology (Blackkwell, 2000).

Chance encounters
the concept of culture
a short history of semiotics
total eclipse of the heart (thinking through technology)
the phake fone - crossing (telecommunication) lines
situating technologies - radio activity and the nuclear question
the sound of a dream
Catholic English
derrivations - from Derrida to Empson
"Gilligan's Wake" coda - interzones (science sentiment cyberpunk).