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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Floating Signifier"”.
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Towards a reconceptualisation of skill: a study of skills in higher education
… both within the discourse of education and a floating Signifier between the several discourses which hold skill as a central concept.</p> <p>The study argues that the current conception of skill is both antithetical to skill production within higher education and inimical to the purposes and …
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From Myth to Meth: Viewing the American Small Town Through the Lens of Psychoanalytica Fantasy
… and ideological uses of the small-town as a floating signifier that can mean anything when deployed for specific discursive purposes. From nostalgic representations of the small town as the place of some original harmony to the rural area as a sight of the most horrific of actions, "the …
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Narrative inquiries of African American women in international education: Etic and emic of race
… Hall’s theoretical discussions of race as a “floating signifier” with differing etic and emic interpretations. Educators are challenged to dispose of the common yet mis-informed practice of advising students that they will no longer be considered “Black” while abroad but seen only as …
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Roots and routes : locating Tibetan identities in diaspora
… some hyper-real Shangri-la, it is turned into a floating signifier that loses its historical, nationalist, and political specificity. While I do not deny the relevance of such claims, I suggest that Lopez's formulation is problematic for how it risks implying that identity performed or …
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Transformations of photography in Japan (1990-1999)
… to their photographs, became valuable cultural signifiers in an image economy. The thesis describes a split in perception occurring between the ‘real’ female photographer, and the female photographer as a ‘sign’ characteristic for the social conditions this sign is produced and consumed in. In …
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Duchamp Meets Turing: Art, Modernism, Posthuman
… ‘point of view’ constituted for her by the floating signifier in the technological unconscious. All these theories, which are part of the posthuman, are presented as the actual overcoming of modernism to show that the readymade as medium is, at the same time, both one of the points of …
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
… the comics medium. The zombie is not just a ‘floating signifier’ (according to Jerrold E. Hogle), but a revenant signifier, actively and aggressively linking with existing concepts, and transforming them. The thesis also considers both the zombie figure and zombie genre within the parameters …
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Destabilizing science from the right : the rhetoric of heterosexual victimage in the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS controversy
… both “AIDS” and “heterosexuality” to operate as floating signifiers whose meanings are contested in public discourse in ways that ultimately reinforce heterosexual privilege and under-attention to the AIDS crisis. In the end, the destabilization of the meaning of HIV/AIDS does not serve …