Saussure’s idea of semiotics was the instigation of a new movement in the philosophy of language. Its central tenet of the arbitrary relation of reality to language, the notion of language as a conventionally agreed upon system used to map out the world, had obvious ramifications for the perception of the world and our relation [...]

It can be said that Modernity emerged from British society’s repulsion of four years of brutal trench warfare on the Western front during the First World War. New innovations such as mustard gas, tanks, and heavy artillery fuelled a maelstrom of death and destruction on massive scales, leading to hundreds of thousands of casualties on [...]