MediaTropes (Nov 2013)

Special Semiotic Characters: What is an Obstacle-Sign?

  • Gary Genosko

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 101 – 111

Abstract

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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 their political efficacy in drunk-driving campaigns.

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