Abstract
The abiding cultural significance of swords, in an age of technologically-sophisticated weapons of mass destruction, is as much a semiotic puzzle as it is a socio-psychological one. The semiotics of swords displays certain features - commodity fetishism, the business speak of 'cutting edge' performance, primitive vitality, and related elements - that reveal the double-ness of desire in market society, the simultaneous desire to negate the capitalist present in favor of a primitivist past, together with an invigoration of the present through tropes of violent conflict. The edginess of sword-semiotics also marks certain points of cultural instability, in terms of race, gender, and sexuality, evincing an incessantly transgressive impulse.
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