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Viruses as archaeological tools for uncovering ancient molecular relationships

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1529, Issue 1, Page 3-13, November 2023., 2023
The entry of a virus into the host cell always implies the alteration of certain intracellular molecular relationships, some of which may involve the recovery of ancient cellular activities. In this sense, viruses can be used as archaeological tools for identifying unexpressed activities in non‐infected cells.
Ascensión Ariza‐Mateos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

OBJECT‐ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND THE OTHER OF WE IN ANTHROPOCENTRIC POSTHUMANISM

open access: yesZygon®, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 315-339, June 2023., 2023
Abstract The object‐oriented ontology group of philosophies, and certain strands of posthumanism, overlook important ethical and biological differences, which make a difference. These allied intellectual movements, which have at times found broad popular appeal, attempt to weird life as a rebellion to the forced melting of lifeforms through the ...
Yogi Hale Hendlin
wiley   +1 more source

Historical Data, Comparison, and Systematisation. Some Thoughts on the Challenges and Possibilities of Synthesising Historical and Social Scientific Approaches in the Study of Religion

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 691-706, December 2022., 2022
This article discusses the introductory remarks to this special issue by Mattias Brand, as well as the two articles written by the Mattias Brand and Gerard Wiegers, respectively. It includes my own reflections in the commentary on the three contributions.
Volkhard Krech
wiley   +1 more source

Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 4, Page 855-865, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person ...
Stéphane Aubinet
wiley   +1 more source

Michel Serres, ‘a legend for us to read our world,’ or just a geographer?

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022
Abstract In pondering the purpose and relevance of the thought of the French philosopher, Michel Serres, this article surveys recent secondary literature about his works in geography, social science, literary and humanities subjects. Where they are thought to be helpful, the article includes some biographical details.
Emily Hayes
wiley   +1 more source

Redundancies in the communication of music: An operationalization of Schutz's ‘Making Music Together’

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 923-939, November/December 2021., 2021
We elaborate Alfred Schutz's theory of musical communication empirically. Our technique for analysing musical communication aligns Schutz's sociological theory with the mathematics of anticipatory systems. Music, we argue, can be considered as an anticipatory system that articulates through its diachronic unfolding, fundamental symmetries which can be ...
Mark William Johnson, Loet Leydesdorff
wiley   +1 more source

A Systematic Investigation of Gesture Kinematics in Evolving Manual Languages in the Lab

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 45, Issue 7, July 2021., 2021
Abstract Silent gestures consist of complex multi‐articulatory movements but are now primarily studied through categorical coding of the referential gesture content. The relation of categorical linguistic content with continuous kinematics is therefore poorly understood. Here, we reanalyzed the video data from a gestural evolution experiment (Motamedi,
Wim Pouw   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

APPROACHES TO BIOSEMIOTICS

open access: yes, 2023
Approaches to Biosemiotics is the first issue in the Biosocial World collection, and contains a series of articles on what biosemiotics does, how it does it and what its long-term objectives may be. As a more specialized discipline in the boundaries of linguistics, the biosociology, the philosophy of biology and the sciences, we hope to offer a point ...
Romay Coca, Juán   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A strawberry, an animal cry and a human subject: Where existential semiotics, biosemiotics and relational metaphysics seem to meet one another

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2019
The article discus ses some semiotic approaches to the relation between nature and culture. Starting with outlining the structuralistic approach to this issue, especially the ideas of Juri Lotman and Algirdas Julien Greimas, the author finds parallels ...
Katarzyna Machtyl
doaj   +1 more source

Still minding the gap? Reflecting on transitions between concepts of information in varied domains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This conceptual paper, a contribution to the tenth anniversary special issue of information, gives a cross-disciplinary review of general and unified theories of information.
Bawden, D., Robinson, L.
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