Abstract:
I denne artikel anlægges et psykologisk perspektiv på Barthes begreber - studium og punctum. Det demonstreres, at Barthes under markant indflydelse af psykoanalytisk teori fremstiller studium og punctum som to erindringstilstande, præget af henholdsvis forsvindende og markant affektiv intensitet, og hvor intensiteten i udgangspunktet er afgørende for, hvorvidt erindringsindholdet overhovedet lader sig repræsentere symbolsk, fastholde (’verbalisere’). Det vises, hvorledes Barthes med sin fremstilling af studium og punctum opererer med udgangspunkt i den psykoanalytiske antagelse, at der findes et omvendt proportionalt forhold mellem graden af en oprindelig erfarings affektive intensitet, og denne erfarings mulighed for akkurat genkaldelse og symbolisering. Idet det betones, at Barthes orienterer sig selektivt i Freuds psyko-seksuelle teori og forestillinger om det psykiske apparats generelle funktionsmåde, forsøges væsentlige træk ved studium og punctums gehalt indkredset. Mod artiklens afrunding indikeres det kort, at begrebet om punctum formelt mimer en række træk ved ’traumet’, som dette fænomen kan beskrives indenfor psykoanalysen. I forlængelse heraf antydes det slutteligt at begrebet om punctum, såfremt det udelukkende elaboreres på et driftsorienteret grundlag, og dets poststrukturalistiske forudsætninger således ekskluderes, kan have perspektiver for billedets anvendelse i en dynamisk praksis, der knytter an til bearbejdning af alvorlige sorgtilstande, hvor det tabte kærlighedsobjekt er narcissistisk integreret i dele af det sørgende subjekts jeg (melankoli).

Forthcoming:
Diagraph of Metaphysic or Ontology - The 1606 Ontology of Jacob Lorhard, translated and annotated.
Authors: Sara L. Uckelman, Peter Øhrstrøm, Henrik Scharfe
 

Draft version of the translated ontology can be found here

Information, medier, kommunikation.
Overvejelser omkring en humanistisk informations-, medie- og kommunikations-videnskabsteori
Author: Jörg Zeller
Published: 20.12.2005

Abstract:
Videnskabsteori beskæftiger sig med videnskab. Dvs. med spørgsmålet, hvad viden er (erkendelsesteori) og hvordan der på målrettet og metodisk vejledt vis kan skabes eller frembringes ny viden (metodologi). Jeg konstaterer, at videnskabsteori har en teoretisk eller deskriptiv, nærmere sagt epistemologisk, og en praktisk eller konstruktiv, nærmere sagt en metodologisk, side. Hvad videnskabsteoriens forhold specielt til informations-, kommunikations- og medievidenskaberne angår, vil jeg påstå, at viden er utænkelig uden information, information er utænkelig uden kommunikation, og kommunikation er utænkelig uden et medium, hvorigennem informationen kan kommunikeres. Videnskabsteoretikeren er følgelig henvist til informations-, kommunikations- og medievidenskabelig viden, for at kunne udøve sit hverv.

Talking about Technology – An Interview with Bonnie A. Nardi
Author: Anne Marie Kanstrup
Published: 14.06.2004

Abstract:
The interview with Bonnie A. Nardi, conducted March 25 2004, has its point of departure in the authors’ and Nardi’s shared research on local IT-support, also referred to as mediating work or gardening in the interview. The first part of the interview is thus an open talk with Nardi on selected topics on local IT-support such as the value of local IT-supporters in organizations, the invisibility of local IT-support work, and the view on and recognition of local IT-support work. The second part of the interview focuses on Nardi’s recent book “Information Ecologies”. Following the theme of the book, this part of the interview opens with a conversation on good technology practice, technology criticism, responsibilities regarding good technology practice, and ideals and realities for technology design and use. Subsequently, the talk moves to a focus on the ecology metaphor presented in the book. The interview is concluded with Nardi’s reflections on future challenges for technology design and use.

Visual Deixis In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Author: Peter Allingham
Published: 08.10.2003

Abstract:
With point of departure in an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (Paramount 1959/60) focusing on how faces and bodies are used as structuring elements in the creation of the special situation of reception of the thriller, the aim is to discuss body and face as basic elements of a visual deixis within a semiotic and cognitive frame of reference.

Pragmaticism and the Role of Terminology
Author: Torkild Leo Thellefsen
Published: 16.04.2003

Abstract:
According to Peirce, an idea consists of three elements: an
intrinsic feeling, an energy whereby it can affect other ideas and a
tendency to bring along other ideas. Based on this definition and the
idea that symbols grow through use and experience, and further that
knowledge seems to be organized around a fundamental sign, which is
unique for the single knowledge domain, the paper examines how and why
terminology is developed.

Scope, Methodology and relevance of Computational Linguistic Research
Author: Inger Lytje
Published: 10.03.2003

Abstract:
The paper identifies various trends in cognitive linguistics comprising corpus linguistics, tagging and formalisation of linguistic regularities. The paper suggests that language be seen as interaction between text and grammar: language is not seen either as text or as grammar but as interaction between the two. A computational model for processing Danish language within the framework of cognitive grammar is presented. The model comprises lexicon and morphology, tagging and parsing procedures and a spelling checker. It is shown that methodology plays a major role in relation to computer modelling of text comprehension. Besides being influenced by cognitive grammar, the software has also been influenced by empirical facts about the Danish language together with evaluation through prototyping. Consequently it is suggested that language technology be developed on experimental grounds rather than formal specification only.

Postmodernism, Knowledge and J-F Lyotard
Author: Ben Dorfman.
Published: 15.05.2002

Abstract:
This paper is an adaptation of a lecture delivered in seminar for the Department of Communication at Aalborg University on postmodernism and knowledge. Its focus is the status of knowledge in postmodern society and culture as framed by J-F Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition and The Postmodern Explained. It emphasizes the ideas of "computerization" and "information society" against the backdrop of postmodern concepts of the cultural quotation. Futhermore - after offering a general introduction to the idea of postmodernism - it attempts to explore the political implications of the interaction of quotation, computerization and information as well as offer a criticism of Lyotard's general approach to these concepts.

Signs of learning in Computer Cultures
Author: Tem Frank Andersen.
Published: 03.01.2002

Abstract:
This paper presents theoretical and empirical reflections on how to understand learning and information and communication technologies as a cultural phenomenon. The concept of culture and technology is discussed in relation to professor Sherry Turkle's psychological notion of the subjective computer, professor Stuart Hall's semiotics of communication, and finally professor James Lull's research on the social uses and dimensions of media. The paper concludes with some basic reflections of the semiotic nature of learning and the how this nature can be described as both communicative, interactive and collaborative.

Possible Worlds in Narrative Space
Author: Henrik Schärfe.
Published: 03.01.2002

Abstract:
A narrative is a specific kind of discourse characterized by the possibility of incorporating an ontological construction that may or may not be identical to that of the physical world. Under this perspective, a narrative can be seen as a set of at least one possible world in which actions can take place according to the rules of that world. This paper is an attempt to establish an ontological description of the modal structure of possible worlds in narrative discourse, by a close examination of the 'modal structure of narrative universes', proposed by Marie-Laure Ryan, and combining it with the theory of diegetic levels.