Post-modernism, post-structuralism, post-semiotics? Sign theory at the fin de siècle
Roland Posner
The contribution describes the differences between modernism and postmodernism as historical periods of twentieth century establishes comparable structuralism post-structuralism semiotic approaches. Like modernism, rejects traditional modes thought, attempts to reconstruct academic disciplines on basis a few fundamental principles strives work with reconstructed terminologies axioms. post-modernism, is characterized by necessity finding ways continue research based fragmentary results left structuralist projects. In beginning century, itself had responded materialism, atomism, historicism, naturalism introducing its own methodology built around dichotomies signified signifier, paradigm syntagm, synchrony diachrony, langue parole. Rather than rejecting this apparatus, explicated paradoxes behind these tried overcome them under-mining first concept each pair. This change perspective foregrounded material, processual, intertextual character signs well sense-producing function interpretation. Rejecting rigidly fixed methods general theories, waiving distinction object-signs meta-signs in favor their joint reflection, post-structuralist semiotics became an alternative conventional practices sign analysis now approaches status art.
Semiotica