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P A R T T H R E E Comparative Semiotics [O]ne’s point of reference should not be to the great model of language and signs, but to that of war and battle. The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war rather than that of a language: relations of power, not relations of meaning. [ . . . ] [Semiotics] is a way of avoiding [history’s] violent, bloody and lethal character by reducing it to the calm Platonic form of language and dialogue. —Foucault (1972: 114) ...

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