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In semiotics and discourse analysis, floating signifiers (also referred to as empty signifiers, [1] although these terms have been made distinct [2]) are signifiers without a referent. The term open signifier is sometimes used as a synonym due to the empty signifier's nature to "resist the constitution of any unitary meaning", enabling its ...
Ernesto Laclau (Spanish:; 6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner, Chantal Mouffe .
Developing several sharp divergences from the tenets of canonical Marxist thought, the authors begin by tracing historically varied discursive constitutions of class, political identity, and social self-understanding, and then tie these to the contemporary importance of hegemony as a destabilized analytic which avoids the traps of various ...
The test depends on substitution: a particular signifier is chosen, then the effect of substituting alternatives is considered to determine the extent to which the value of the sign is changed. This both illuminates the meaning of the original choice and identifies the paradigms and code to which the signifiers used belong.
1. "Untitled Track #1" (Abstract wind noises with David Lynch speaking the phrase "Booth 34, X5149," a code that unlocked the song "The Norwegians" for download from his website), 2. "Untitled Track #2" (Poem "It Was Laura" from Episode 8 of Season 1, mixed to heighten the sound of the piano accompaniment) Bang Camaro: Bang Camaro: 2007 —
Sound Blaster Live! is a PCI add-on sound card from Creative Technology Limited for PCs. Moving from ISA to PCI allowed the card to dispense with onboard memory, storing digital samples in the computer's main memory and then accessing them in real time over the bus. This allowed for a much wider selection of, and longer playing, samples.
In 1981, Sweet Micro Systems began designing products not only for creating music, but speech and general sound effects as well, [1] culminating in the release of the Mockingboard in 1983. [2] The Sound II was introduced at US$199 (equivalent to $610 in 2023), and the Sound/Speech I at US$299 (equivalent to $910 in 2023). [ 2 ]
Test cards typically contain a set of patterns to enable television cameras and receivers to be adjusted to show the picture correctly (see SMPTE color bars).Most modern test cards include a set of calibrated color bars which will produce a characteristic pattern of "dot landings" on a vectorscope, allowing chroma and tint to be precisely adjusted between generations of videotape or network feeds.