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Dr. Briankle Chang

Associate Professor

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Briankle Chang Office: 308 Machmer Hall
Phone: (413) 545-3455
Email: bchang@comm.umass.edu
   

Cultural studies; media criticism; philosophy of communication.

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1990
M.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1981
M.A., University of Alabama, 1978
B.A., Fu Jen Catholic University, 1976

Background

Author of "Eclipse of Being: Heidegger and Derrida"; "Mass, Media, Mass MediaTion: Jean Baudrillard's Implosive Critique of Modern Mass MediaTed Society;" Deconstructing Communication: Subject, Representation, and Economies of Exchange; "Copies, Reproducibility, and Aesthetic Adequacy"; Representing Representation: the Visual Semiotics of Las Meninas"; "Notes on 'Linguistic Principle and Iconic Communication'"; and "Empty Intention." Current research focuses on symbolic economies and postcolonial discourse.

Select Publications

Books

Chang, Briankle G. Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Articles

"The Eclipse of Being: Heidegger and Derrida," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXV, No. 2, June, 1985, pp. 113-137.

"Communication After Deconstruction: Toward a Phenomenological Ontology of Communication," Studies in Symbolic Interaction, vol. 7 (Part A), 1986, pp. 13-32.

"A Hypothesis on the Screen: MTV and Postmodern Signs," Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1986, pp. 70-73.

"Representing Representation: The Visual Rhetoric of Las Meninas," Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 3. 1986, pp. 3-13.

"Mass, Media, Mass Media-Tim: Jean Baudrillard's Implosive Critique of Modern Mass-Mediated Culture," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 7, 1986, pp. 158-181.

"World and/or Sign: Toward a Semiotic Phenomenology of the Modern Life-World," Human Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3/4, 1987, pp, 311-331.

"Notes on 'Linguistic Principles and Iconic Communication'," Journal of Literary Semantics, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1988, pp. 41-46.

"Deconstructing Communication: Derrida and the (Im)Possibility of Communication," History of European Ideas, Vol. 9, No. 5, 1988, pp. 553-568.

"Viestinta dekonstruktion jalkeen: Kohti viestinnan fenomenologista ontologiaa," Tiedotustutkimus, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1989, pp. 7-22.

"Copies, Reproducibility, and Aesthetic Adequacy," The British Journal of Aesthetics. Vol. 31, No. 3, 1991, pp. 265-268.

"Empty Intention," Text and Performance Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1992, pp. 212-227.

“Deleuze, Monet, and Being Repetitive,” Cultural Critique, No. 41, Winter, 1999, pp. 184-217.

Book Chapters

"The Eclipse of Being: Heidegger and Derrida," Semiotics 83, ed. by Jonnathan Evans and John Deely, New York, University Press of America, 1987, pp. 349-359.

"World as Signs: Toward a Semiotic Phenomenology of the Life-World," Semiotics 84, ed. by John Deely, New York, University Press of America, 1985, pp. 317-323.

"Deconstructing the Audience: Who Are They and What Do We Know About Them?" Communication Yearbook 10, ed. Margaret McLaughlin, Newbury Park, CA, Sage, 1987, pp. 649-665.

Curriculum Vita

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