Roland Barthes: Bir Avant-Garde Yazarı

Science Avant-Garde

o think that the neoimpressionists are painters who cover canvases with little multicolored spots is a rather widespread mistake, " wrote Paul Signac in his manifesto of their movement. " This mediocre dot method has nothing to do with the aesthetic of the painters we are defending here, nor with the technique of divisionism they use. " Signac was referring to, among others, Georges Seurat, who...

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Avant-garde Security in AODV

MANETs are networks formed by moving nodes. They use wireless communication to speak among them and they do it in an ad hoc manner. MANET is considered as an ideal network model for group communications because of its forte of instant establishment. Since, existence of central servers cannot be expected; nodes need to guarantee their data to reach the destination securely without loss, tamper o...

Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes

In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ri...

Schumpeter: Theorist of the avant-garde

This paper argues that Schumpeter’s 1911 edition of ‘Theory of Economic Development’ can be fruitfully read as a theory of the avant-garde, in line with such theories developed by artistic avant-garde around the same time, in particular by the Italian Futurists. In particular it will show that both Schumpeter and other avant-garde theorists sought to break with past (1), identify an avant-garde...