Abstract

STEIMBERG, Oscar. Semiotics and cultural studies: coincidences in an inverted image mirror. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2001, n.17, pp.455-463. ISSN 1668-8104.

Difficulties of legitimation -in the social science field-, cultural studies can be described as an inverted specularization of semiotics, which has been accused of not being able to treat the social set: the cultural studies would cover loosely, forgetting what hand been mentioned with rigour. Other coincidences can postulate, if it is accepted, that the semiotic search concentrates on effects and devices of sense production, while those of cultural studies attempts to uncover social relations articulated with them. The task is not always the sema, but in both cases it must start from recognizing the inevitable innovation and opacity of its objects, and its disorganizing impact in reading cannons that, while on they cannot explain the mobility of the semiotic network.

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