Cybersemiotic Systemic and Semiotical Based Transdisciplinarity

Brier, Søren

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-52746-4_2

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“…One of the best known projects attempting to extend semiotic threshold thinking is Brier's cybersemiotic model (2021) which transcends the underlying emphasis on text that Eco's encyclopediac model presumes, as it is comprised of a communicative social system (or “semiotic net”) of intersubjective “embodied, enacted, extended, and embedded” human minds that continually produce, observe, interpret, and test knowledge regarding matter and energy, living systems, experiential consciousness, and social meaning. Relevant to this “semiotic net” also is the overall issue of “semiotic agency” (Sharov and Tønnessen, 2021), especially that of people with differing levels of cognitive, cultural, or physical circumstances.…”

Section: The Polysemiotic Threshold Zonementioning

confidence: 99%

On thresholds: signs, symbols and significance

Martens

2023

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PurposeThis paper reviews research developments in semiosis (sign activity) as theorized by Peirce, Eco and Sebeok, focusing specifically on the current study of “semiotic threshold zones,” which range from the origins of life through various nonhuman life forms to artificial life forms, including those symbolic thresholds most familiar to library and information science (LIS) researchers. The intent is to illustrate potential opportunities for LIS research beyond its present boundaries.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a framework that describes six semiotic threshold zones (presemiotic, protosemiotic, phytosemiotic, zoosemiotic, symbolic and polysemiotic) and notable work being done by researchers in each.FindingsWhile semiotic researchers are still defining the continuum of semiotic thresholds, this focus on thresholds can provide a unifying framework for significance as human and nonhuman interpretations of a wide variety of signs accompanied by a better understanding of their relationships becomes more urgent in a rapidly changing global environment.Originality/valueThough a variety of semiotic-related topics have appeared in the LIS literature, semiotic thresholds and their potential relationships to LIS research have not been previously discussed there. LIS has traditionally tasked itself with the recording, dissemination and preservation of knowledge, and in a world that faces unprecedented environmental and global challenges for all species, the importance of these thresholds may well be considered as part of our professional obligations in potentially documenting and archiving the critical differences in semiosis that extend beyond purely human knowledge.

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Section: The Polysemiotic Threshold Zonementioning

confidence: 99%