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Neighbourhoodies: courageous community, colours, blazing bling and defiant delight [PDF]
, 2010 As we see a global culture appear across the planet identity politics simultaneously gravitate towards issues of the local. In society’s top strata people strive to live in posh areas with the right postal code. Subversive counterculture activists try to
von Busch, Otto
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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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Biosemiotics and ecological monitoring
Sign Systems Studies, 2001 During the recent decades, a global culrural-institutional network has gradually grown lip to project, implement, and use an enormous technological web that is supposed to observe, monitor, communicate, inventory, and assess our environment and its ...
Luis Emilio Bruni
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On the Fundamentality of Meaning [PDF]
, 2018 The mainstream view of meaning is that it is emergent, not fundamental, but some have disputed this, asserting that there is a more fundamental level of reality than that addressed by current physical theories, and that matter and meaning are in some way
Josephson, Brian D.
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What Connects Biolinguistics and Biosemiotics?
Biolinguistics, 2013 This paper reviews the background, fundamental questions, current issues, and goals of the intellectual movements initiated by Noam Chomsky’s biolinguistics and Thomas A. Sebeok’s (1920-2001) biosemiotics.
Prisca Augustyn
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Tractatus Hoffmeyerensis: Biosemiotics as expressed in 22 basic hypotheses
Sign Systems Studies, 2002 This paper briefly outlines the main ideas of biosemiotics in 22 hypotheses, with special regards to the version of it claimed by Jesper Hoffmeyer.
Frederik Stjernfelt
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Internet memes as internet signs: A semiotic view of digital culture
Sign Systems Studies, 2016 This article argues for a clearer framework of internet-based “memes”. The science of memes, dubbed ‘memetics’, presumes that memes remain “copying units” following the popularisation of the concept in Richard Dawkins’ celebrated work, The Selfish Gene ...
Sara Cannizzaro
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Introducing Biosemiotic Ethics
Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 2018 In this introduction to the special issue on Biosemiotic Ethics, we introduce major concepts and themes corresponding to the topic. With reference to Ivar Puura’s notion of “semiocide”, we ask: what are the ethical responsibilities that attention to semiotics carries?
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Should there be biomolecular pragmatics?
Слово.ру: балтийский акцентThis article demonstrates that the concept proposed by Alexander Spirov reflects the ongoing paradigm shift and inspires new approaches in biosemiotics and semiotic pragmatics.
Suren T. Zolyan
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Functional Information: Towards Synthesis of Biosemiotics and Cybernetics
Entropy, 2010 Biosemiotics and cybernetics are closely related, yet they are separated by the boundary between life and non-life: biosemiotics is focused on living organisms, whereas cybernetics is applied mostly to non-living artificial devices. However, both classes
Alexei A. Sharov
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