“Hive of Words”: The Transnational Poetics of the Eiffel Tower

Conley, Tim

doi:10.1353/mod.2010.0025

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2010

DOI: 10.1353/mod.2010.0025

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“Hive of Words”: The Transnational Poetics of the Eiffel Tower

Tim Conley¹

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“… 1. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/parisandaround/11,505,668/Eiffel-Tower-facts.html. Also Harriss (2009); Conley (2010); Young (2008). …”

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Towering Invisibilities: A Cultural-Theoretical Reading of the Eiffel Tower and the One World Trade Center

Steiner

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2018

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This article explores forms of visuality in architecture in which symbolic and functional values interlink by considering two visually striking and deeply symbolic landmarks that tower over their respective cities at the same time as their impact is related to the invisible wireless communication they facilitate. It contrasts cultural-theoretical responses to the Eiffel Tower (1889) with readings of the One World Trade Center (2014). In this way, we contour a theoretical framework to grasp the compounded forms of signification these towers embody and address the latent and invisible signification at work by turning to the work of the French philosophers Roland Barthes (1915-1980) and Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998).

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“… 1. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/parisandaround/11,505,668/Eiffel-Tower-facts.html. Also Harriss (2009); Conley (2010); Young (2008). …”

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Towering Invisibilities: A Cultural-Theoretical Reading of the Eiffel Tower and the One World Trade Center

Steiner

Veel

2018

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HOLLYWOOD: The political economy and global citation of an emblematic language object

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Jaworski

2023

Lang. Soc.

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The HOLLYWOOD sign is arguably the world's most famous language object. Emblematic of prestige and cultural capital, the sign can be found not just in Los Angeles, but in citations all over the world. Beginning with the history of its valorization, HOLLYWOOD is shown to emanate symbolic value through a set of enregistered semiotic features. Drawing upon a set of globally sourced citations of HOLLYWOOD, the circulation and stratified bundling of size, emplacement, alignment, typeface, and color indicates how the citation of language objects is mediated by political economy. A process of diffuse citation is further observed, in which the quotation of language features is not overt, but the source of emanation is still tangible, revealing HOLLYWOOD as the source of a global linguistic-semiotic register. As this register circulates in citations overt and diffuse, language objects are revealed as key sites for the reproduction of commodity values. (The Hollywood sign, language object, citation, enregisterment, global emblems, recontexualization)*

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The Ecology of Porous Modernism in “Naples” and “Zone”

Sang¹

2020

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

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“Hive of Words”: The Transnational Poetics of the Eiffel Tower

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Towering Invisibilities: A Cultural-Theoretical Reading of the Eiffel Tower and the One World Trade Center

Towering Invisibilities: A Cultural-Theoretical Reading of the Eiffel Tower and the One World Trade Center

HOLLYWOOD: The political economy and global citation of an emblematic language object

The Ecology of Porous Modernism in “Naples” and “Zone”

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