overcoding

The use of established codes to take on new meanings, often thereby obscuring distinctions.

Noun

The use of established codes to take on new meanings, often thereby obscuring distinctions.
- The reason lies in the peculiar efficacy of the state in utilizing overcoding and rendering its principles and categories society-wide. - 1994, The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, →ISBN, page 107:
- Stylistic and ideological conventions are examples of such rules used in overcoding. - 1995, Winfried Nöth, Handbook of Semiotics, →ISBN, page 212:
- The scientific world (Welt, as opposed to the Umwelt of the animal) is the translation of all of the flows, particles, codes, and territorialities of the other strata into a sufficiently deterritorialized system of...
An instance of overcoding.
- Identification of the semantic status of overcodings is a necessary preliminary to translation because it serves to identify those inferences which it will be necessary to supply in the shape of informal translation (in...
- Representation is established through successive overcodings, and the meaning of a phenomenon is given by the dominant overcoding, through a process of one code (or signifier) replacing another. - 1996, Philip...
- The story of Sade reminds us of the overcodings of eroticism and politics, particularly in turbulent times and acrss highly contested political terrain. - 2002, Samuel Lyndon Gladden, Shelley's Textual Seductions:...