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The “Beautiful Abyss” of Human Cruelty, Anthropogenic Violence, and Other-Than-Human Friendship in Yamen Manaï’s Bel Abîme

Humanities, 2022
Yamen Manaï’s novel Bel Abîme upholds Dominique Lestel’s contention that friends are those who we hold near and dear in our hybrid communities. Lestel and Manaï’s reexamination of the reality of other-than-human friendship presents our domesticated pets ...
Keith Moser
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From cause and effect to causes and effects

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 296-308, March 2024.
Abstract It is now—at least loosely—acknowledged that most health and clinical outcomes are influenced by different interacting causes. Surprisingly, medical research studies are nearly universally designed to study—usually in a binary way—the effect of a single cause.
Joachim P. Sturmberg, James A. Marcum
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Integrating biosemiotics: From a semiological point of view

Sign Systems Studies, 2020
This paper is a study in the ‘philosophy of semiotics’. It is centred on a critical approach to the Peircean sign conception, which underlies biosemiotics and the global perspective on signs.
Adrian Pablé
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The Runaway Sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary Analysis

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2015
This article derives a notion of adaptation as a semiotic process from the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer and the Copenhagen-Tartu school of biosemiotics, suggesting it as way of considering fictional writing on genetics and evolution both empirically and ...
Lara Choksey
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Umwelt Theory, Biosemiotics and Damage Limitation

Biosemiotics
Phenomenology, particularly as developed by Merleau-Ponty, primarily concerns how human beings perceive and act towards the world they encounter, their lifeworld.
J. Pickering
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Indications for a metatheoretic foundation of meaning in biosemiotics. Some philosophical remarks as an introduction to the Gatherings in Biosemiotic 6, Salzburg, Austria, 5-9 July 2006

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2008
Biosemiotics is the study of meaning in living systems; it is about context dependent communication and signification on all levels of biological organization.
Matthias Schafranek
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Biosemiotics’ greatest potential contribution to biology

Chinese Semiotic Studies
Encouraging biologists to factor semiotics into their research is likely to fall on deaf ears because they already factor it in through an accepted life science methodological standard here called Abstract Parallel Engineering (APE).
J. Sherman
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Exploring Life’s Boundaries: Biosemiotics and the Challenge of Defining Life

Linguistic Frontiers
This article addresses the challenges of defining life by combining insights from biological and semi-otic perspectives. It explores the lexicographic complexity of defining life, analysing how definitions vary across scientific and philosophical ...
N. Zengiaro
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Maize and semiotic emergence in a contemporary Maya Tale: Tec Tun's, U tsikbalo’ob XNuk Nal [Tales of Old Mother Corn]

Tapuya, 2019
This article discusses a contemporary Maya story about the relationship between humanity and maize in the Yucatan Peninsula: José Manuel Tec Tun's, U tsikbalo’ob XNuk Nal / Los cuentos de la Abuela Mazorca [Tales of Old Mother Corn].
Charles Maurice Pigott
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The Tree that Therefore I am

Semiotic Review, 2020
Post Tenebras Lux is the critically-acclaimed, fourth film by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas: semi-autobiographical yet surreal; global yet Mexican; a simple drama about two married couples and an experimental study in interspecies desire and mimesis.
Joshua Reno
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