Introduction to cybersemiotics : a transdisciplinary perspective / edited by Carlos Vidales and Søren Brier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vidales, Carlos, editor.

Brier, Søren, editor.

Series:

Biosemiotics

Biosemiotics ; v.21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Information theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (564 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

Summary:

This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction: Cybersemiotics, Biosemiotics, General Semiotics

References

Contents

Contributors

About the Authors

Chapter 1: Cybersemiotics in the Information Age

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Information

1.3 Cybersemiotics

1.4 The Internet Era

Chapter 2: Cybersemiotic Systemic and Semiotical Based Transdisciplinarity

2.1 Introduction

2.2 How to Formulate the Problem

2.3 Transdisciplinary Paradigms

Chapter 3: From Cybernetics to Semiotics to Cybersemiotics: The Question of Communication and Meaning Processes in Living Systems

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Describing Communication from the Point of View of First and Second-Order Cybernetics

3.3 Describing Communication from the Point of View of Semiotics and Biosemiotics

3.4 Describing Communication from the Point of View of Cybersemiotics

3.5 The Need for a Transdisciplinary Concept of Communication

Chapter 4: System, Sign, Information, and Communication in Cybersemiotics, Systems Theory, and Peirce

4.1 Cybersemiotics

4.2 Systems Theory

4.3 Systems, Systems Theory, Cybersemiotics, and Cultural Semiotics

4.4 Information, Meaning, and Form

4.5 Peircean Systems Theoretic and Cybersemiotic Perspectives on Signs

4.6 How Autopoietic Systems Communicate

4.7 Luhmann's Radicalization of the Scenario of Self-Reference in Communication

4.8 Self-Referential Communication from the Peircean Perspective

Chapter 5: Transdisciplinary Realism

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Methodology of Transdisciplinarity

5.3 The Hidden Third and Peirce's Synechism

5.4 Conclusion

Chapter 6: Practice as Research: A Cybersemiotic Overview of Knowing

6.1 Introduction

6.2 PaR - where it Came from and Giving it a Name

6.3 Knowing in PaR: Materiality, First Person, Reflexivity.

6.4 Cybersemiotics and the Knowing of PaR

6.5 Transdisciplinarity and the "Cybersemiotic Star"

6.6 PaR and Mediation Beyond the Human

6.7 Continuity and Connection, Process and Practice

6.8 Conclusion

Chapter 7: The Blind Men and the Elephant: Towards an Organization of Epistemic Contexts

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The WHAT of Knowledge: Ontology

7.3 The WHO of Knowledge: Epistemology

7.4 The HOW of Knowledge: Methodology

7.5 Conclusion

Chapter 8: Communicology, Cybernetics, and Chiasm: A Synergism of Logic, Linguistics, and Semiotics

8.1 The Problematic: Choice of Context

8.2 The Problematic: Communication as Context

8.3 Thematic: Cybernetic Communication Contextualizes Bio-Socio-Semiotic Information

8.4 Thematic: Semiotic Phenomenology Contextualizes Cybernetic Communication

Chapter 9: The Return of Philosophy: A Systemic Semiotics Approach

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Is Systems Research a Paradigm?

9.3 Open Systems

9.4 The Organization of Thought Through Network Theory

9.5 Discussion

Chapter 10: Human-Computer Interaction Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Contextualizing Interactions

10.3 A Technoetic Aesthetic

10.4 Interactive Hybrid Environments

10.5 Human-Computer Interactions (HCI)

10.6 The Meta-Environment

10.7 Learning to Embody Digital Technology

10.8 Semiotics of Embodiment

10.9 Space and Time Aesthetics

10.10 Combining Perceptions and Processes

10.11 The Cybersemiotic Framework

10.12 An Integrative Framework

10.13 Mediated Properties

10.14 The Cybersemiotic Experience

10.15 Conclusion

Chapter 11: The Communication of Form. Why Cybersemiotic Star Is Necessary for Information Studies?

11.1 Introduction

11.2 The Problems of Information.

11.3 Methodologically Reductionist and Fundamentalist Theories

11.4 Information in Formation: Peirce's Theory of Information

11.5 At the Center of Cybersemiotic Star

11.6 Pragmaticism and Complementarity

Chapter 12: From 'Motivation' to 'Constraints', from 'Discourse' to 'Modeling System': Steering Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis Towards Cybersemiotics

12.1 Introduction

12.2 From Motivation to Cybersemiotic Constraints

12.3 Discourse and Jamesian Subjectivist Pragmatism

12.4 CDA and the Information-Transmission Model

12.5 Discourse as a Modeling System

Chapter 13: Towards a Cybersemiotic Philology of Buddhist Knowledge Forms: How to Undo Objects and Concepts in Process- Philosophical Terms

13.1 Introduction

13.2 The Transdisciplinary Model of a Semiotic Philology of Thought Forms

13.3 Classical Forms of Knowledge Representation

13.4 Towards a Cybersemiotic Philology of Buddhist Knowledge Forms

13.5 From Cassirer's "Symbolic Forms" of Culture to Peirce's Semiotics as Logic

13.6 "No Self": Semiosic Agency of a Living System in Buddhism

13.7 A Comprehensive Model of Natural and Cultural Life Forms

13.8 The Environment as a Room of Our Own (Un/Making): How to Undo Objects and Concepts in Process-Philosophical Terms

13.9 Perspectives for a Cybersemiotic Philology of Buddhist Knowledge Forms

Appendix (I)

Appendix (II)

Chapter 14: Cybersemiotics and Epistemology: A Critical Review of the Conditions of "Observation" from Transcendental Semiotics

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Observation Conditions: A Review from the Philosophy of Science

14.3 Semiotics and Cybernetic Conditions of Observation

14.4 Cybersemiotics and Phenomenology from Transcendental Semiotics

Chapter 15: Storytelling and Cybersemiotics

15.1 Introduction.

15.2 Storytelling and Autopoietic Cybersemiotic Communication

15.3 What Is the Storytelling Paradigm?

15.4 Discussion of Storytelling and Cybernetics of Recycling

15.5 Discussion and Conclusion

Chapter 16: Communication and Evolution

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Coincidences and Disagreements with the Program of Cybersemiotics

16.3 Raising the Study Problem

16.4 The Main Basis Behind Evolutionary Biology

16.5 Epistemic-conceptual Framework for Studying Communication from the Biological-evolutionary Perspective

16.6 Communication as an Act and Expressive Behavior

16.7 Communication Thresholds: Minimum, Middle, and Maximum

16.8 Conclusions

Chapter 17: Prolegomena to Cybersemiotic Discourse Pragmatics. Total Human Evolutionary Cognition and Communication

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Propaedeutics - From Metabolism to Symbolism

17.3 Between Private Cognition (Perception-Action) and (Collective) Communication

17.4 The Architectonic of the THECC System and the Disposition of the Chapter

17.5 Propaedeutic: Practo-Poiesis/Semio-Genesis

Oiko-Cybersemiosis

Para-Poiesis/Peri-Semiosis

17.5.1 Biological Background Capacities: Bio-Cybersemiosis

Endo-Semiosis

Structural Coupling

17.5.2 Signification Spheres

17.5.3 Evolution of Private Mind (Actant) - Anapoiesis/Intrasemiosis

17.6 Evolutionary Cognition: Psycho-Cybersemiosis

Eco-semiosis

17.6.1 Consciousness - Pheno-Semiosis

17.6.2 Memory: Gegenwelt

17.6.3 Evolution of social Mind (Interactant) - Cata-Poiesis/Meta-Semiosis

Languaging Semiosis

17.7 Evolutionary Communication

Socio-Cybersemiosis

Poli-Poiesis/Hypero-Semiosis

Eco-Logical Semiosis

17.7.1 Emotional Signaling

Symptomatic Signification

17.7.2 Motivational Sign Playing

Instinctual Signification.

17.7.3 Evolution of rational-reflexive Social Mind - Deonto-Poiesis/Nomo-Semiosis

Interlocution

17.8 Language Gaming

Glosso-Semiosis

Thinking Logo-Semiosis

Conceptual Signification

17.8.1 Communion - Phatico-Semiosis

17.8.2 Practice - Poietico-Semiosis

17.8.3 Evolution of Cultural Mind - Paideia-Poiesis/Meta-Semiosis

Deonto-Poiesis/Nomo-Semiosis

17.9 Tradition

Memetico-Semiosis

Critico-Semiosis

17.9.1 Hypothesis Formation (Abduction, Creativity, and Innovation)

17.9.2 Prediction and Testing (Deduction)

Meta-Cybersemiosis

17.9.3 Conventionalization (Induction)

Idio-Poiesis/Hypo-Semiosis

17.10 Conclusion

Chapter 18: The Cities and the Bodies As Cyberinterfaces

18.1 What Is an Interface

18.2 Interfaced Cities

18.3 Cyborg Cities

18.4 Sentient and Smart Cities

18.5 The Body Beyond the Visible

18.6 Cities and Bodies in Symbiosis

18.7 The Digital Universe and Cybersemiotics

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

3-030-52746-8

OCLC:

1249473986