What do myths, memes, and novels have in common? Structure. In this video, we explore the core ideas of structuralism and semiotics, guided by the work of Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, and Barthes. From ...

"We were born with the historical mission of national revival in this land." This is the first part of the National Education Charter that I had to memorize in elementary school. Was I really born ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy revolutionized how we think about language and meaning, but it also intersects with the ideas of semiotics, particularly the concepts of sign, signifier, and signified ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...

Sahand Elhami is the translator of the book published by Markaz. This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly developments ...

Structuralism was propounded by the Swiss linguist Ferdinand De Saussure who used language to analyse structures around him. The structures here refer to the fixed physical and nonphysical ...

The Post in post-structuralism means something that comes behind. The differentiation between the word post pertains to time and means something that succeeds an event, or something that comes after ...