Signs & Space Raum & Zeichen

From the contents: I. Keynote Lectures Roland Posner, The Semiotic Community and its Role in Postmodern Academic Life, Mieke Bal, Space, Inc., Götz Wienold, Stein Baum Schrift. Japanische Zeichen in Räumen des Übergangs, Räumen am Rande, Paul Bouissac, Space as Memory: some semiotic implications, Yishai Tobin, Benjamin Lee Whorf meets Modern Hebrew. Signs of a Universal Spatio-Temporal Cline in Language and Culture, Paul Pennartz, The Speechless City. On Semiotics and the Quality of Urban Development. II. Round Tables Aart van Zoest, Semiotics in the Netherlands and Belgium, Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich, Semiotics in Austria, Germany, Switzerland. III. Workshops Teun A. van Dijk, Cultural Interferences, George P. Landow, Cyborg Semiotics: Cyborgs, Cyber Books, Virtual Bodies, Mikle D. Ledgerwood, Multimedia Literature. IV. Sessions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Dinda Gorlée / Sven E. Larsen, Natural Space - Cultural Space, Rainer Volp / Willem Marie Speelman, Space, Philosophy and Religion, Gerd Döben Henisch, Semiotische Maschinen, Uwe Wirth / Jan C.A. van der Lubbe, Abielschichtigkeit und Dynamik erfaßt werden soll. Als zentraler Begriff wird dabei der der Organisation verwendet.