Semiotics Unbounded

Petrilli, Susan; Ponzio, Augusto

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“…2 Self is mortal, ephemeral like the body. Petrilli 1998b;Petrilli and Ponzio 2003;Deely et al 2005). Thus articulated, the subject is not unitary or compact, but presents a surplus, something more with respect to identity itself, which is constructed in the dialogical relationship between self and I. I or Ident is not the 'individual,' but the 'unique.'…”

Section: Identity and Alterity In Semiotic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The semiotic capacity therefore implies a third modality of being-inthe-world, specific to human beings, the semioethical , 2002, 2003. This is connected to our capacity for creative awareness of the other, the assumption of responsibility for the other, accountability or answerability, which presupposes the global condition of interrelated and intercoporeal dialogical otherness to which we are all subject biosemiosically as living organisms.…”

Section: Three Senses Of Globality -Biosemiosic Anthroposemiosic Sementioning

confidence: 99%

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Identity, freedom, and answerability in the global world: A semiotic approach

Petrilli¹

2008

Semiotica

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We propose to analyze identity, freedom, and answerability in a semiotic key; that is, from the perspective of the science of signs. Individual and community identity alike may be governed by a mono-logic or by a dialogic. The di¤erence is profound and pervasive. Global semiotics in particular (a trend that in modern times extends from Charles S. Peirce and Victoria Welby to Charles Morris and Thomas A. Sebeok) may contribute to a critique of monologism. However, the assumptions and implications of this new approach to semiotics are external to traditional philosophy. This leads to the need for a new philosophical founding of semiotics. From this point of view, a contribution may come from those contemporary French authors who have contributed to a critique of Western thought such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Emmanuel Levinas. The focus of the present essay is on Levinas in relation to the semiotic perspective delineated with developments in the direction of the problem of identity, freedom, and answerability.

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Section: Identity and Alterity In Semiotic Perspectivementioning

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Section: Three Senses Of Globality -Biosemiosic Anthroposemiosic Sementioning

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Identity, freedom, and answerability in the global world: A semiotic approach

Petrilli¹

2008

Semiotica

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“…Semiotics however, as the progeny of the Hippocratic tradition has not followed its wayward medical brother and become enamoured with Rationalism, or the Empiricism versus Rationalism debate. Petrilli and Ponzio (p. 242)5 went as far as to state that “Peirce's semiotics6 7 is explicitly anti-Cartesian and rejects the rationalism-empiricism dichotomy as sterile and abstract.” Although some would dispute this (see online supplementary tables8). Regardless, the subsequent developments have been that semiotics, although from the same Hellenic root as medicine has not found a place in the modern medical school curricula of English-speaking countries.…”

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The (re)-introduction of semiotics into medical education: on the works of Thure von Uexküll

Tredinnick‐Rowe

2016

Med Humanities

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Thure von Uexküll's reputation as a pioneer in biosemiotics and also in psychosomatic medicine is well documented. It is easy to see these disciplines reflected in his notable publications, both in English and in German. However, if one spares the time to filter through all of his articles, monographs, conference papers and editorials in English and in German, a notable gap arises in his English language publications: that of clinical education. This gap in the English language literature may seem unimportant in and of itself, but it speaks volumes when we consider the total absence of medical semiotics in the curriculum of medical schools in the English speaking world. This runs in stark contrast to the strong traditions of psychosomatic medicine in Germany, which Thure von Uexküll largely helped to instil. Do the works of Thure von Uexküll offer a possible step towards a resurrection of medical semiotics in clinical education? This chapter attempts to explore the lesser known German literature on clinical education that Thure von Uexküll produced, and explore the role semiotics can play in Medical Education in the English speaking world. While also seeking to contrast this literature with other existing approaches in British and American medical schools who have attempted to reintroduce medical humanities and reflexive thinking into clinical education.

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“…This model is highly interesting because the "blending" produces a growth of information, either cognitive or emotional. "Interpretive semiotics" unlike the generative model or the semiotics of cultures, is the orientation that best allows researchers to apply a semiotic model linked to recent cognitive results (Petrilli, Ponzio 2005).…”

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Inference in media space. The case of IBM Software Executive Briefing Center – Rome

Marino¹

2014

Ocula

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In our paper we apply Peirce's model of Arguments (Statistical Deduction, Probabilistic Deduction, Induction and Abduction) to a communication process where negotiating sense and meanings is emphasized. We selected a communication space where everything is planned as a medium of sense (video terminals, screens, lights, etc.) namely the IBM Software Executive Briefing Center in Italy, a workplace used to exchange views, negotiate or transact. It is based in Rome in the same building as the International Development Laboratory of the IBM Software Group. The Software Center is the place where IBM welcomes its potential customers and has the opportunity to show them its technology and offer solutions. This paper focuses on "media space" in the Center which is structured by the seller according to his/her idea of the buyer's interpretive process. This paper analyzes the roles of visual codes in the allocation of functions. It also looks into the relation between the symbolism of the company with its marketing, past history and media space in order to define the buyer's typology of inference (deduction, induction or abduction) in relation to the communication strategy of the media space design. The research is conducted directly in the field by interviewing the Manager of the IBM Center as well as asking people who use it to fill in an anonymous questionnaire, which analyses both the media space and the plan of the building.

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Semiotics Unbounded

Cited by 101 publications

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Identity, freedom, and answerability in the global world: A semiotic approach

Identity, freedom, and answerability in the global world: A semiotic approach

The (re)-introduction of semiotics into medical education: on the works of Thure von Uexküll

Inference in media space. The case of IBM Software Executive Briefing Center – Rome

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