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The term ‘Biosemiotik’ in the 19th century
Sign Systems Studies, 2022 Tracing the emergence of biosemiotics, attention can be drawn to the very early usage of the term ‘biosemiotics’ (Biosemiotik) in the writings of Austrian chemist Vincenz Kletzinsky (1826–1882) that dates back to the 1850s.
Kalevi Kull
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Viruses as archaeological tools for uncovering ancient molecular relationships
Annals 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
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OBJECT‐ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND THE OTHER OF WE IN ANTHROPOCENTRIC POSTHUMANISM
Zygon®, 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
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Journal 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
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Biosemiotics as systems theory: an investigation into biosemiotics as the grounding for a new form of cultural analysis [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis examines the relation of systems theory to biosemiotics. To this end, it considers the claim that biosemiotics is an uneven development of systems theory.
Cannizzaro, Sara
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Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik
American 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
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Michel Serres, ‘a legend for us to read our world,’ or just a geographer?
Geography 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
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Systems 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
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A Systematic Investigation of Gesture Kinematics in Evolving Manual Languages in the Lab
Cognitive 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
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Sign 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
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