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Éric Landowski, Presence de l’autre: Essais de socio-sémiotique II, Paris, PUF, 1997
No full textRecensione di Éric Landowski, Presence de l’autre: Essais de socio-sémiotique II, Paris, PUF, 199
Innovating superheroes
No full textIn "Innovating Superheroes," Alvise Mattozzi charts stylistic
changes in superhero comics through the 1970s and 1980s.
Tracking formal shifts in narrative in titles like Green
Lantern, Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing, and Shade, Mattozzi opens up
an often marginalized form to rich semiotic analysis --
breathing life into the dynamic potential of both comic book
scholarship and semiotics alike. Lively and insightful, the
following piece goes beyond the presumed status of postmodern
texts as non-linear and self-reflexive, and looks into the very
mechanisms that make these qualities important -- not merely as
a cluster of aesthetic choices, but as a language in its own
right
Città di vetro, spazio di luce: Un quadro di Johannes Vermeer in un racconto di Paul Auster
No full textArtefatti e passioni
No full textrecensione di alcuni libri che trattano il tema di emozioni e design e messa in confronto con punto di vista della semiotca sulle passion
Can We Insure Against Political Uncertainty? Evidence from the US Stock Market
No full textI show that shares currently traded on U.S. stock markets can be used to hedge political uncertainty. Focusing on the 2000 U.S. presidential election, I construct two "presidential portfolios" composed of selected stocks anticipated to fare differently under a Bush versus a Gore presidency. To construct these portfolios I use data on campaign contributions by publicly traded corporations and identify the major contributors on each side. Using daily observations for the six months before the election took place, I show that the excess returns of these portfolios with respect to overall market movements are significantly related to changes in electoral polls
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