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Editorial – Passings by Geoffrey Sykes

Fortuitous meetings with three scholars provide the basis for an unusual reflection at the time of their passing. The meeting with Solomon Marcus occurred in Calea Victoria, Bucharest Romania, and a main elegant thoroughfare, lined with embassies, main hotels, galleries, fashion shops, restaurants and museums. Visitors can be surprised by the urban buildings – much of it coming from Parisian inspired construction early in the twentieth century. Yet my meeting with Marcus was surprising in a quite unexpected way.

Conflict, Image, Narrative: Hollywood in the Middle East by Daniel Binns

While the war cinema of the late 1980s onwards is typified by a return to the group ensemble and the intimate framing of subjects reminiscent of Vietnam war film, it is also characterised by a disjointed, concatenated, ‘machine-gun’ editing syntax inspired by news footage and videogames.

Strangers in the City – some Psycho-social and Ontological aspects of Representing the Otherness in Literature by Nicoleta Popa Blanariu

However, in the collective imaginary, the stranger is more than an accumulation of ethnic characteristics. This is what also concerns us further, as well as the recurrence – not without explanation – of a gnostic scenario in some modern representations of history and of individual or collective exile experience.

Recovering the Logic in Semiotics in Reflexive Anthropology by Geoffrey Owens

This article explores the nature of ethnography in light of Pierce’s premise that semiotics serves as vehicle for comprehending both human interaction and the natural universe, going beyond suggestions that knowledge can and must only be resolved into assertions of authority or power.

Creative Arts and Scientific Research under the same Umbrella by Solomon Marcus

The emergence of signs, the development of sign processes need attention in all directions, they are not the exclusive privilege of arts and humanities. We will try to bridge this gap. Indeed, there is a gap between the internal life of science, the very nature of scientific creativity, on the one hand, and the dry way science is exposed at all levels, from general school till university, with accent on procedure and operations, rather than on ideas and imagination.

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