Books for eco-semiotics seminars
a reading list for students of this course
- Austin, J., L., (1962), "How to do things with words", Clarendon, 1962
- Barthes, R., "Empire of Signs", Jonathan Cape, 1982
- Barthes, R., "Mythologies", Paladin Books, London, 1973
- Barthes, R., "Sade, Fourier, Loyola", Jonathan Cape, London, 1977
- Barthes, R., "The Death of the Author", transl. by Heath, S., in "Image, Music, Text", Hill and Wang, 1977
- Barthes, R., "The Fashion System", trans. Ward, M. & Howard, R., New York: Hill & Wang, 1983
- Bateson, Gregory (1972). Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine.
- Crowe, Norman (1997). Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World: An Investigation into the Evolutionary Roots of Form and Order in the Built Environment. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Press.
- Gibson, James J., The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. New Jersey, USA
- Goleman, D., Emotional Intelligence; why it can matter more than IQ, Bloomsbury, Great Britain, 1996
- Hardin, G., 'The Tragedy of the Commons' in Garrett Hardin and John Baden (eds.), Managing the Commons (San Francisco
- Hoffmeyer, Jesper (1996). Signs of Meaning in the Universe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Hornborg, Alf (1996). Ecology as semiotics: Outlines of a contextualist paradigm for human ecology. In Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives, Philippe Descola and Gisli Pálsson (eds.), 45–62. London: Routledge.
- Kull, Kalevi (1998). Semiotic ecology: different natures in the semiosphere. Sign Systems Studies 26: 344-371.
- Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M., Metaphors We Live By, Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980
- Margulis, Lynn, (ed,), Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Morphogenesis, The MIT Press, 1991
- Maturana, H., & Varela, F., G., The Tree of Knowledge, Shambhala, Boston & London, 1987/1998
- Nöth, Winfried (1998). Ecosemiotics. Sign Systems Studies 26: 332-343.
- Rapoport, Amos (1994). Spatial organization and the built environment. In Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Tim Ingold (ed.), 460–502. London: Routledge.
- Simmons, I. G. (1993). Interpreting Nature: Cultural Constructions of the Environment. London: Routledge.
- Soper, K., (1995), What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human", Routledge, 1995
- Sperber, D., & Wilson, D., (1986), Relevance; Communication and Cognition, Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass.
- Tanizaki, J., (1933), “In Praise of Shadows”, 1933
- Trivers, R., L., The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism, Quarterly Review of Biology, 1971, 46, (4), 35-57, quoted in Wilson, E., O., 'The Genetic Evolution of Altruism; psychological and sociological principles', chapter in 'Altruism, Sympathy and Helping', edited by Lauren Wispé, Academic Press, New York and London, 1978, pp. 33-35
- Wood, J., (2007), Designing for Micro-utopias; thinking beyond the possible, Gower, UK, 2007
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