Special Semiotic Characters: What is an Obstacle-Sign?

This article regains an understudied exposition from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish concerning the nuanced semio-techniques that constitute a punitive city perfused with obstacle-signs. The semiotic import of these signs are explicated and then brought into contemporary focus with regard to...

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Main Author: Gary Genosko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Libraries 2013-11-01
Series:MediaTropes
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Online Access:http://www.mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/20386