Authenticity, Performance and other double-edged words
Essays on Popular Music
Dario Martinelli
(In English)
“Authenticity, Performance and other double-edged words” encompasses the last 10 years of the author’s research within the realm of Popular Music studies. A kind of “Greatest Hits album” that includes his most insightful contributions to the field. The essays were written in different times and for different contexts, but the red line is that they all deal with topics that are particularly “critical” within musicological research. Authenticity, Performance, Intertextuality, Otherness, Post-Modernism, Ideology and others… They all are “double-edged words”, that provoked lively discussions within the musicologists’ community, that are constantly revised or updated, that are often abused and in desperate need to be rescued.
30 euros (+ forwarding expenses)
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The Logos of the Bios 2
Bio-Communication
Günther Witzany
(In English)
“The Logos of the Bios“ Volumes 1 and 2 both focus on the necessary and ongoing change from a pure mechanistic biology to a biology as an understanding social science.
Volume 1 established the foundations of a three-leveled biosemiotics, i.e. one in which any investigation or analyses of sign-mediated interactions must recognize the complementarity of syntactic (combinatorial), pragmatic (context-sensitive) and semantic (contentspecific) rules.
Volume 2 now delivers the practical application. The articles cover all organismic kingdoms except that of Archaea, demonstrating Bio-Communication in all domains of life.
Bio-Communication is the precondition for any coordination within and between organisms. Bio-Communication occurs on three levels (A) intraorganismic, i.e. intra- and intercellular, (B) interorganismic, between the same or related species and (C) metaorganismic, between organisms which are not related.
The Bio-Communicative approach transforms empirical data of traditional biological research into a practical tool for a consistent categorization of all living processes.
36 euros (+ forwarding expenses) – Order here
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The Logos of the Bios 1
Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics.
Guenther Witzany
(In English)
This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective – communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic
rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
32 euros (+ forwarding expenses) – Order here
