Everything about Symbolics

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: SymbolicsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Language, gender and political symbolics: Insights from citizen digital discourses on gender‐sensitive language in SerbiaInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Algèbre de la logiqueThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The symbolics of blood: Mestizaje in the AmericasCited 57 times
5. Go sideways: Lisp machineA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Lisp MachinesA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The symbolics of blood: Mestizaje in the Americas

  Carol A. Smith · 1997 · Identities · 57 citations

• The Clothes Make the Woman: The Symbolics of Prostitution in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Claude McKay's Home to Harlem

  Kimberley Roberts · 1997 · Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature · 43 citations

• Architecture of the Symbolics 3600

  David A. Moon · 1985 · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 39 citations

• Symbolics and its Functions in the Play of Children

  D. El'konin · 1966 · Soviet Education · 37 citations

• Symbolics Architecture

  Moon · 1987 · Computer · 30 citations

• Highways, heroes, and secular martyrs: the symbolics of power and sacrifice

  TINA MANAGHAN · 2011 · Review of International Studies · 25 citations

• Blockchain Matters—Lex Cryptographia and the Displacement of Legal Symbolics and Imaginaries

  Katrin Becker · 2022 · Law and Critique · 23 citations

• The Symbolics Genera Programming Environment

  J.H. Walker, D.A. Moon, D.L. Weinreb · 1987 · IEEE Software · 20 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Language, gender and political symbolics: Insights from citizen digital discourses on gender‐sensitive language in Serbia

  Ksenija Bogetic · 2022 · Journal of Sociolinguistics · 6 citations

• “Pigeons Fly off a Stone Mountain”: From a Cooing Lovebird to a War Pigeon, or Modification of Embroidered Rock Dove’s Symbolics in Today’s Ukrainian Merch

  Tetiana M. Brovarets · 2023 · Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture · 1 citations

• PHENOMENOLOGY OF HORROR IN POST-HORROR: THE POETICS AND SYMBOLICS OF “THE LIGHTHOUSE” BY R. EGGERS

  Academy of Media Industry, Valeriya Yu. Labuznaya · 2024 · Articult · 1 citations

• Broad chest and red eyes: Idioms and symbolics of populism in Modi’s foreign policy discourse toward China

  Nishant Upadhyay · 2026 · International Politics · 1 citations

• ODYSSEY IN THE M. ZENKEVICH'S MYTHOPOETICS (ABOUT THE PLOT AND SYMBOLICS OF THE POEM "SHADOWS”)

  Russian State Hydrometeorological University, A.A. CHEVTAEV · 2023 · Scientific Notes of Orel State University · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Algèbre de la logiqueLouis Couturat · 1905
• Dream PsychologySigmund Freud · 2017
• Philosophy in a new keySusanne Katherina (Knauth) Langer · 1942
• Mathematics and plausible reasoningGeorge Pólya · 1954
• Diccionario de símbolos tradicionalesJuan Eduardo Cirlot, Philip Pullman · 1962
• The Book of SignsRudolf Koch · 1923
• Images et symbolesMircea Eliade, Carmen Castro · 1952
• Principia mathematicaAlfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell · 1910

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