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Systematizing evil in literature: twelve models for the analysis of narrative fiction
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 141-168
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0071
The degree zero of digital interfaces: a semiotics of audiovisual archives online
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 219-235
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0043
The distribution of handshapes in the established lexicon of Israeli Sign Language (ISL)
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 101-122
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0049
The element of surprise in Peirce’s double consciousness paradigm
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 11-47
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0122
The plastic of clothing and the construction of visual communication and interaction: a semiotic examination of the eighteenth-century French dress
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 17-37
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0050
The role of schemas and scripts in pictorial narration
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 1-27
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0071
Toward a Peircean logic of meditation
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 153-170
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0119
Towards a stratified metafunctional model of animation
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 1-35
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0078
Understanding and translating Confucian philosophy in the <i>Analect</i>s: a sociosemiotic perspective
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 287-306
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0144
Vers une sémiotique sadienne
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 139-158
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0115
Visual affect in films: a semiotic approach
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 239
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- 99-124
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0081
What do hashtags afford in digital fashion communication? An exploratory study on Gucci-related hashtags on Twitter and Instagram
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 243
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- 325-351
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0114
Culture and Communication
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- An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
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Other title information: Signs in Flux
Notes: Translated from Russian by Benjamin Paloff
Annotation: This collection provides a stand-alone primer to his intellectual legacy in both semiotics and cultural history. It includes new translations of some of his major pieces as well as works that have never been published in English. The collection brings Lotman into the orbit of contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life. It is aimed at students from various disciplines and is augmented by an introduction and notes that elucidate the relevant contexts.
Identifier: 9781644693872
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Embodied ekphrasis of experience: Bodily rhetoric in mediating affect in interaction
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 91-111
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0126
Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt (1999-2019)
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- Reprezentačný zborník
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Other title information: 2 dekady oneho umenia v Nitre
Annotation: In Slovakia, especially outside the capital, unconventional art has never been given the space it deserves. It was and is no different in Nitra, where – although it is home to two universities – progressive, experimental and alternative artistic initiatives still do not bloom like roses... They find themselves in an alienated position, often on the fringes of interest, somehow “they cannot come up with a name” – in which case they are called “that” in the local dialect. Perhaps that is why we have chosen the adjective of not another, but “that” art in the title of this publication, which in many ways deviates from the norm, is significantly different, provocative, and at the very least thought-provoking. The monographic publication Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt – 2 two decades of that art in Nitra aims to map retrospectively, in a chronological manner, the entire two decades of the existence of the international cycles, or rather festivals HERMOVO UCHO V NITRE and POSTMUTART, focused from the end of the 20th century to the present precisely on these artistic initiatives, often moving in a taxonomically indefinable interspace – on the border of intermedial overlaps and innovative fusions of new music, visual art, video art, performance, sound art, happening –, testing their limits and crossing the boundaries of discursive and non-discursive symbolism in the period of late postmodernism.
Identifier: 9788055815237
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Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication
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Other title information: A Semiotic Perspective
Annotation: This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality. Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism.
Identifier: 9783030178826
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Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology
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Other title information: A Cultural Semiotic Approach
Annotation: My dissertation focuses on the study of myths and their semiotic mechanisms that appear in contemporary mass culture texts. Although myths and mass culture as a whole have been widely discussed from the perspectives of various disciplines, there are no studies that deal with the systematization of mass culture mythology and the semiotic definition of mythic markers. The topic of this dissertation is interesting not only from a general theoretical, philosophical, anthropological and semiotic perspective, but also for practical reasons. I believe that I can convincingly show in my work that the study and identification of semiotic mechanisms of mass culture myths is applicable in the field of marketing semiotics and social communication. In my dissertation, I first compare mass culture mythology from a sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspective. This allows me to combine the two main epistemological approaches to myth research and treat myth as a holistic meta-concept on the one hand, and approach myth as a cultural text on the other. Based on the framework I have created, I will analyze various texts of mass culture in my work and focus on identifying the most common and enduring structural units of mass culture mythology. How do I define a smaller unit of myth? In defining it, I will rely on two structural principles of myth: the emic unit, which I denote by the concept of mythologeme, and the hybrid unit, which I denote by the concept of mytheme. In the course of the analysis, I will highlight the following mythologemes: Fate, Journey, Universality, Catastrophe, Golden Age and Mother Nature, and the mythemes: Transformation and Return. In addition to distinguishing the aforementioned mythologemes and mythemes, I will highlight their value and function in mythological discourse. Fate and Journey help to integrate the life of the individual into the whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature is associated with the existential need of a person to search for authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of the Universe, Catastrophe and Golden Age constitute the human time-spatial past-present-future triad. The latter are related to human questions about the origin of the world, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mythologeme of Transformation points to the idea of miracle and the mythologeme of Return to the time-spatial axis of the human semiosphere, to orderliness. The last chapter of the work applies the theoretical framework developed in the dissertation to specific case studies. The first of them is dedicated to the analysis of the TV political marketing of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader, and there I show how archetypal mythological meanings were included in the structure of the political narrative. The second case study focuses on the development of a specific brand, which I did in collaboration with the well-known Russian pop artist Manizha, and where I apply the mythologeme of Mother Nature.Further research into mythologemes and mythemes could open up new semiotic markers and thereby expand the field of application of semiotics, as well as help to better understand the mythological basis of culture. This dissertation presents a semiotic study of myth revealing in contemporary mass cultural texts and exploration of its inner semiotic machinery. Although a variety of studies have been devoted to myth, and quite a few studies have tackled mass culture issues, less attention has been given to the systematic articulation of mass cultural mythology and its markers, which reveal its inner semiotic machinery. Those issues are relevant not only from a general theoretical philosophical, anthropological, and semiotic point of view, but also have concrete applicability in marketing semiotics and social communications. Firstly, I discuss mass culture under an emancipatory umbrella approach and explore mass culture mythology from the sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspectives. Secondly, I combine two main epistemological attitudes of myth and integrate a holistic object of research – which appears as a meta-concept – from one side, and a text of culture – mass cultural narratives around brands conveying their main values – from the other side . Thirdly, I discuss the smallest units of mass culture mythology and explore its most widespread structural units. I classify the smallest units of myth by their structural principles: the emic units (mythologemes) and the hybrid ones (mythemes). There are the mythologemes of Fate, Course, Universe, Catastrophe, Golden Age, and Mother Nature, and the mythemes of Transformation and Backtracking considered in detail. The main existential values of those smallest mythological units are discussed. The mythologemes of Fate and Course help to understand individual life as a part of an integral whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature relates to the existential search for inner authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of Universe, Catastrophe, and Golden Age constitute an integral triadic idea about time and space (past-present-future) and reflect the human existential quest for an explanation of the world origin, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mytheme of Transformation represents the idea of mythological miracle, and the mytheme of Backtracking appeals to the idea of a mastered time and space. Fourthly, I extend the process to find more minimal units of myth in cultural texts of different genres. The first case is dedicated to close analysis of the television communication of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader. This case demonstrates the combination of archaic meanings and contemporary forms of myth within a narrative, producing new powerful connotations. The second case applies the Mother Nature mythologeme as a branding tool for building a coherent image of a musical artist. The further exploration of the mythologemes and mythemes and articulation of other semiotic markers of myth systematically enriches a profound understanding of human mind and culture.
Identifier: 9789949032150
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Differentiation of language functions during language acquisition based on Roman Jakobson’s communication model
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 517-537
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.06
Impossibly good looks: A pragma-ontological approach to unearthing the latent rhetorical structure of anti-ageing advertising discourse
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 216-254
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.02
The epistemic role of intermedial visual artworks: An analysis of the photobooks Palast der Republik and Domesticidades
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 64-89
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.03
An Invitation to Creative Reflection
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Beyond the “Tragedy of Culture”: In-between Epistemology and Communication
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 141-180
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Building Communication Theory From Cybersemiotics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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- 9-32
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Cassirer’s Symbolic Forms in Application: New Symbolization of New Thought in the Language of Online Communication
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 427-444
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Evolution and Communication: Heterodox Rethinkings
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Give Peace a Chant
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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.
Identifier: 9783319505374
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Mimicry and Meaning
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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry
Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Identifier: 9783319503158
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Musical Performance As an Intermedial Affair (A Case of a Pianist)
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 83-98
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Semiotics and its Masters
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- Volume 1
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Notes: Authors in the collection: Paul Cobley, Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio, Youzheng Li, Marcel Danesi, Göran Sonesson, Gianfranco Marrone, Alexandros Ph. Logopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, François Jost, José Luis Fernández, Patrizia Violi, Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril, Ugo Volli, Farouk Y. Seif, John Deely, Eero Tarasti, Dinda L. Gorlée, Isabella Pexxini, Anne Hénault
Annotation: This series focuses on the state of contemporary semiotics and its current applications. Each volume in the series places its topic within a general understanding of today's semiotics, an interdisciplinary field which investigates the application of sign theory not only to culture, but also to nature. The books are accessubly written and communicate with an academic readership that is not overspecialized.
Identifier: 9781501511752
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Some 19th Century Problems Of Evolution (1965)
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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The Relationship Between Social and Biotic Evolution: The Evolution of Autopoietic Systems
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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- 33-53
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Towards an ecology of mind
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Other title information: Batesonian legacy continued
Annotation: This new editorial series in the humanities, established under the title Batesoniana Polonica, is open to all international contributors asa potential platfrom for respective exhanges of ideas and a tool for the further deepending of analyses that may be developed in various sectors of scientific explorations where the influence of Gregory Bateson is felt for years and years and much before his death in 1980. The following volume no 1, is a very special kind of collective exertion for editors, and, hopefully, it will be well received so by its prospective readers. Its project is connected with preparations for a truly international initiative, namely the Second Bateson Symposium in Poland, to be located at the Silesian Botanic Garden in Mikolow, June 1-4 2017, which should constitute a preliminary stage to a world congress on the ecology of mind to be held at Katowice, Poland, in July of 2018.
Identifier: 9788365621252
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Virtual Logic: The Logic of Quantum Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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A History of the History of Cybernetics: An Agenda for an Ever-changing Present
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 42
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A Merger of Two Strategic (Ir)reconcilables, 1962-1980
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 10
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A Reader on Both Cybernetics and Systems Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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A semiotic analysis of anti-identity construction in fictional narratives from the viewpoint of modeling systems theory
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 151-166
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0058
Anthropological-semiotics of rhythm and animating modernity in China: A rhythmanalysis of Princess Iron Fan
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 1-34
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0023
Art: A First-Person Science
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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ASC 1999 to 2001: A Personal Account
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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Bioinformatic Egg, Biosemiotic Hen
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Biosemiotic Cosmogony of the Riddle of Life!
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Biosemiotic Expectations
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Can Pragmatists Believe in Qualia?
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Chanson
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Other title information: Du Collectif a l'intime
Annotation: Impossible d'enumerer les circonstances qui font de la chanson, de sa creation a sa reception, un art collectif. Intermediale, sa fabrication, mele souvent plusiers talents et la forme la plus accoplie de sa performance, son expression sur scene, se fait devant un auditoire.
Identifier: 9791032000717
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Column on Transdisciplinary Realism
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Conceptual embodiment in visual semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 215-234
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0052
Dancing with Cybernetics - on Bridges in the Wind
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 50
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Does one truly need to belong?: A case for the need to meaningfully exist
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 251-257
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0026