On insignificance : the loss of meaning in the post-material age /
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 meaningless, Leo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2020]
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| Summary: | 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 meaningless, 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781138618312 1138618314 9781138618305 1138618306 |