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This paper opens up quality management discourse. A historical review traces quality control discourse before TQM appeared. It is argued that rather than `Japanization', the challenge, paradoxically, is the westernization of `foreign'/ Japanese management technologies. To explore a conceptual possibility, the naming of TQM is scrutinized. When TQM is revealed as an arbitrary linguistic sign (de Saussure 1959), the limit of representation based on signified-signifier dichotomy becomes apparent. An arbitrary sign makes playing with substitutes possible (Derrida 1978). Specifically, de Saussure' s sign-signified-signifier trichotomy allows three substitutions. In so doing, a supplementary understanding of TQM is offered. The potential for reconsidering the emergence and transformation of other arbitrary signs (e.g. BPR and HRM) in the management/organization discourse makes this seemingly perverse deconstruction of TQM worthwhile.

This article traces the ascent of new digital surveillance practices for European health security in an era of heightened global pandemic vigilance. In doing so, the article demonstrates how the confluence of evolving processes of digitisation and production of new digital data sources have enabled EU health security agents in recent years to enhance infectious disease surveillance through novel digitised practices of epidemic intelligence. Subsequently, the article thus argues that the centralisation of these new epidemic intelligence technologies to the core of EU health security initiatives has been foundational to the ascent of a new blended health surveillance practice operating across the EU, which amalgamates the digitised surface alerts of these new big data surveillance technologies with the long-established and traditional disease surveillance legacies of EU Member States. By utilising the concept of surface knowledge in relation to the ascent of these European epidemic intelligence practices, this article demonstrates the key epistemic and methodological shifts which occur in the production of knowledge, alerts and signals for accelerated infectious disease surveillance and the governing of public health risks within the EU.

How can we learn to notice the signs of disability?We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped "deaf person in area" road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms "dis-attention."To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena—including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability's materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life.Drawing on a set of thirty-three research interviews focused on disabled faculty members' experiences with disability disclosure, as well as written narratives by disabled people, this book argues for the materiality of narrative, suggesting narratives as a means by which people enact boundaries around phenomena and determine their properties. Signs of Disability offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of "dis-attention" and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings

This volume contributes to the understanding of the fundamental, manifold, and ever-changing sign processes that underlie our access to the world. It contains the abstracts of the contributions to the 16th International Congress of the German Society for Semiotics "Transformations – Signs and their Objects in Transition", which met digitally in Chemnitz from 28 September to 2 October 2021.:Geleitwort / Welcome Address PROGRAMM Programmübersicht Keynotes Panelübersicht Liste aller Vorträge RAHMEN­PROGRAMM Verleihung des DGS-­Nachwuchsförderpreises Dokumentarfilm Reading Circus Posterschau mit studentischen Forschungsprojekten Digitale Exkursion Chemnitz – Leben mit dem Vulkan Podium Transformationen und Infrastrukturen der Wissenschafts­kommunikation Diskussionsforen & Agora Semiotica, quo vadis? Transdisziplinärer Workshop Reading Circus Kolloquium Haus der Zeichen Gather.town PANELS ARCHÄOLOGIE Repräsentationen und Interpretationen dynamischer Prozesse und Aktionen in vormodernen Gesellschaften ARCHITEKTUR Transformationen in Architektur und Städtebau BILD Bilder als Agenten kultureller Transformationsprozesse DESIGN Rückkehr des Realen. Design und Designtheorie im Wandel DIGITAL HUMANITIES Digitale Transformation der Geisteswissenschaften? Theoretische und methodologische Provokationen durch die Digital Humanities KÖRPER Digitale Transformation und Virtualisierung von Körperzeichen KULTURWISSENSCHAFT Images as Agents of Cultural Transformation LITERATUR & JUGEND - UND SUBKULTUREN Mediale Transformationen und/als Innovation narrativer Formate: Aneignung, Literacy, Protest MEDIEN Mediale und semiotische Transformationsprozesse in der Wissenschaftspraxis MODE Religion, Politik und Mode – Zirkulation der Zeichen TANZ, THEATER UND ZIRKUS Zur (Ir)relevanz der Semiotik. Transformationen in den performativen Künsten UMWELT - UND KARTO-/ATLASSEMIOTIK Von der Kartosemiotik zur Atlassemiotik ZEICHENPHILOSOPHIE Das Ende der Referenz? Wahrheitsansprüche im "postfaktischen Zeitalter" ASSOZIIERTES PANEL DES CHEMNITZER SFB 1410 HYBRID SOCIETIES Anthropomorphisierung aus semiotischer und kognitiver Perspektive. Ein Beitrag zur sozialen Robotik ASSOZIIERTES PANEL PALIMPSESTRÄUME Herausforderungen und Potentiale der Palimpsestraumtheorie PERSONENVERZEICHNIS ; Der Band gibt einen Einblick in das Verständnis der fundamentalen, mannigfaltigen und immer im Wandel befindlichen Zeichenprozesse, die unserem Weltzugang zugrunde liegen. Er versammelt die Abstracts der Beiträge des 16. Internationalen Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Semiotik "Transformationen – Zeichen und ihre Objekte im Wandel", der vom 28. September bis 2. Oktober 2021 digital in Chemnitz tagte.:Geleitwort / Welcome Address PROGRAMM Programmübersicht Keynotes Panelübersicht Liste aller Vorträge RAHMEN­PROGRAMM Verleihung des DGS-­Nachwuchsförderpreises Dokumentarfilm Reading Circus Posterschau mit studentischen Forschungsprojekten Digitale Exkursion Chemnitz – Leben mit dem Vulkan Podium Transformationen und Infrastrukturen der Wissenschafts­kommunikation Diskussionsforen & Agora Semiotica, quo vadis? Transdisziplinärer Workshop Reading Circus Kolloquium Haus der Zeichen Gather.town PANELS ARCHÄOLOGIE Repräsentationen und Interpretationen dynamischer Prozesse und Aktionen in vormodernen Gesellschaften ARCHITEKTUR Transformationen in Architektur und Städtebau BILD Bilder als Agenten kultureller Transformationsprozesse DESIGN Rückkehr des Realen. Design und Designtheorie im Wandel DIGITAL HUMANITIES Digitale Transformation der Geisteswissenschaften? Theoretische und methodologische Provokationen durch die Digital Humanities KÖRPER Digitale Transformation und Virtualisierung von Körperzeichen KULTURWISSENSCHAFT Images as Agents of Cultural Transformation LITERATUR & JUGEND - UND SUBKULTUREN Mediale Transformationen und/als Innovation narrativer Formate: Aneignung, Literacy, Protest MEDIEN Mediale und semiotische Transformationsprozesse in der Wissenschaftspraxis MODE Religion, Politik und Mode – Zirkulation der Zeichen TANZ, THEATER UND ZIRKUS Zur (Ir)relevanz der Semiotik. Transformationen in den performativen Künsten UMWELT - UND KARTO-/ATLASSEMIOTIK Von der Kartosemiotik zur Atlassemiotik ZEICHENPHILOSOPHIE Das Ende der Referenz? Wahrheitsansprüche im "postfaktischen Zeitalter" ASSOZIIERTES PANEL DES CHEMNITZER SFB 1410 HYBRID SOCIETIES Anthropomorphisierung aus semiotischer und kognitiver Perspektive. Ein Beitrag zur sozialen Robotik ASSOZIIERTES PANEL PALIMPSESTRÄUME Herausforderungen und Potentiale der Palimpsestraumtheorie PERSONENVERZEICHNIS

William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain. He founded the Socialist League in 1884, but later broke away from it over differences in methods and goals. Signs of Change is a collection of his essays on art, politics and socialism, including 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil'

William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain. He founded the Socialist League in 1884, but later broke away from it over differences in methods and goals. Signs of Change is a collection of his essays on art, politics and socialism, including 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil'.

Although it has been argued that Cameralism had a prominent place in the formation of the modern economic mind and that public happiness was a crucial intersection of early modern economic discourses, its (re) discovery by mainstream economics has been considered partial and unconvincing. Therefore, it is crucial to understand that it was in the aftermath of the political and economic crisis of the Thirty Years' War that happiness was established at the core of the foundations of Spanish Imperialism in the 1650s and then again in the 1760s. The text Signs of Happiness by Francesc Romà i Rossell (1768) is the best thread to reconstruct the evolution of Spanish imperialism. It spins the thread from the 1650s when happiness expanded the public sphere until the publication of his proposal where happiness is defined as the ability to recover from the decline through internal development and the improvement of agriculture, industry, and commerce. It is then when happiness and Cameralist teachings came together to sharpen Romà i Rossell's science of government to transform the monarchy and underpin the creation of the Spanish nation.