Semiosis And Catastrophes

Author : Wolfgang Wildgen
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034304672
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiosis and Catastrophes written by Wolfgang Wildgen and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French mathematician René Thom (Fields medal 1958) died in 2002. In this volume his contributions to biology, semiotics and linguistics are discussed by a group of scholars who have continued his work and have shaped the new paradigm of dynamic semiotics and linguistics. Thom's heritage is full of revolutionary ideas and deep insights which stem from a rich intuition and a sharp awareness of the current state of the sciences, including their potentials and risks. The contributions to this volume are elaborations of papers given at a colloquium at the International Center for Semiotics and Linguistics of the University of Urbino (Italy), in 2005. The central concern of this volume is semiogenesis, i.e. the evolution and differentiation of meaningful («pregnant») forms in the field of symbolic systems - from bio-communication to language and cultural forms like music, art, architecture or urban forms. The basic questions are: How are meanings created and further differentiated? Where do they come from? What kind of forces drive their unfolding? How can complex cultural forms be understood based on simple morphodynamic principles? Applications concern the perception of forms by animals and humans, the categorization of forms e.g. in a lexicon, and predication or other complex symbolic behaviors which show up in grammar or in cultural artifacts like the unfolding of urban centers.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350178322
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warning Signs written by Marcel Danesi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befall any robbers and thieves. And yet these signs were often read as provocations and challenges. Why was this? And how could we more effectively communicate dangers from our world, such as toxic waste, to future civilizations? This book examines and evaluates the kinds of signs, symbols, narratives and other semiotic strategies humans have used across time to communicate the sense of danger. From paleolithic cave art and ancient monuments to the dangers of nuclear waste, carbon emissions and other pollution, Marcel Danesi explores how danger has been encoded in language, discourse, and symbolism. At the same time, the book puts forward a plan for a more effective 'semiotising' of risk and peril, calling on linguists, semioticians and agencies to face up our collective responsibilities, and work together to more clearly communicate vitally important warnings about the dangers we've left behind to civilizations beyond the semiotic gap.

Author : Alessandro Sarti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031519930
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morphology, Neurogeometry, Semiotics written by Alessandro Sarti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Borislav G. Dimitrov
Publisher : Borislav Dimitrov
ISBN 13 : 1370071213
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topological (in) Hegel written by Borislav G. Dimitrov and published by Borislav Dimitrov. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to critically examine whether it is methodologically possible to combine mathematical rigor – topology with a systematic dialectical methodology in Hegel, and if so, to provide as result of my interpretation the outline of Hegel’s Analysis Situs, also with the proposed models (build on the topological manifold, cobordism, topological data analysis, persistent homology, simplicial complexes and graph theory, to provide an indication of how the merger of Hegel’s dialectical logic and topology may be instrumental to a systematic logician and of how a systematic dialectical logic perspective may help mathematical model builders.

Author : Jean-Guy Meunier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350166626
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Semiotics written by Jean-Guy Meunier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can semiotics and computers be compatible? Can computation advance semiotics by enhancing the scientific basis of the theory of signs? Coupling semiotics, a philosophical and phenomenological tradition concerned with theories of signs, with computation, a formal discipline, may seem controversial and paradoxical. Computational Semiotics tackles these controversies head-on and attempts to bridge this gap. Showing how semiotics can build the same type of conceptual, formal, and computational models as other scientific projects, this book opens up a rich domain of inquiry toward the formal understanding of semiotic artifacts and processes. Examining how pairing semiotics with computation can bring more methodological rigor and logical consistency to the epistemic quest for the forms and functions of meaning, without compromising the important interpretive dynamics of semiotics, this book offers a new cutting-edge, model-driven theory to the field.

Author : Alberto Peruzzi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030518213
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structures Mères: Semantics, Mathematics, and Cognitive Science written by Alberto Peruzzi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on cutting-edge concepts related to Bourbaki’s notion of structures mères. It merges perspectives from logic, philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science, suggesting how they can be combined with Bourbaki’s mathematical structuralism in order to solve foundational, ontological and epistemological problems using a novel category-theoretic approach. By offering a comprehensive account of Bourbaki’s structuralism and answers to several important questions that have arisen in connection with it, the book provides readers with a unique source of information and inspiration for future research on this topic.

Author : Janina Wildfeuer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317434218
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Text Analysis written by Janina Wildfeuer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within the fields of narratology, philosophy, multimodal analysis, sound as well as cultural studies in order to cover a wide range of international academic interest. The book provides new insights into current work and turns the discussion towards recent research questions and analyses, representing and constituting in each contribution new work in the discipline of film text analysis. With the help of various example analyses, all showing the methodological applicability of the discussed issues, the collection provides novel ways of considering film as one of the most complex and at the same time broadly comprehensible texts.

Author : Paul Perron
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027219427
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Paris School Semiotics written by Paul Perron and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification. However, as Jean-Claude Coquet notes in a recent collection of essays, what distinguishes one school of semiotics from another is the initial definition given of sign. If, for certain semioticians, the sign is first of all an observable phenomenon, for the Paris School it is first of all a construct and this point of departure has crucial theoretical and practical consequences. The essays appearing in these two volumes are representative of recent work carried out by members of this semiotic school. Essays in Volume I study problems more closely related to theoretical issues, while Volume II focuses more specifically on various fields of application.

Author : Kevin M. F. Platt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semiotic Catastrophes written by Kevin M. F. Platt and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederik Stjernfelt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402056524
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diagrammatology written by Frederik Stjernfelt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-20 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. This book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporaneous doctrine of categorical intuition and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology.