The World of Codes: An Interview with Marcello Barbieri

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The following paper focuses on the role and function of symbols in magical practice. The first part explains the symbol as a semiotic term with all its fundamental features, including the necessary function and condition of ordinary communication. The next section deals with symbols that fulfill the essential role of transforming reality within the framework of magical practice. Examples of sigil magic, Tarot, and amulets explain the paradigm, which uses symbolic language as a mandatory condition for its existence and simultaneously ignores the shared awareness of the origin of the symbol as a constitutional element of its functionality. This paper demonstrates how the symbols used in everyday communication and the symbols used in magical practice are two different entities performing distinct kinds of function, and primarily that they differ in requirements for being created and functional.
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Symbols in Magic: Tools for Transforming Reality

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This is a review of the recently published collective monograph Approaches to Biosemiotics by Rodríguez and Coca (eds.). The publication can be used as a window into the current trends in the research area of biosemiotics, especially in the connection with the social sciences. We review briefly each of the chapters of the monograph and make some general conclusions about the significance and importance of the book by Rodríguez and Coca.
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Quo Vadis, Biosemiotics?

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This paper discusses some of the possible connections between the principles of modeling in the new mechanical philosophy and the modeling used by Charles S. Peirce in his work on categories and evolutionary theory. The main goal is to show that the theoretical approaches used in the new mechanism can be beneficial for disciplines that are not clearly labelled as either humanities or natural science – for example, biosemiotics – and that this philosophical movement can help close the gap between natural science and the humanities. In individual chapters, this text deals with: the difference between the doctrine of the universal mechanism and the doctrine of the new mechanism, exploring the concept of the category of Thirdness and evolutionary theory in the work of Charles S. Peirce and finally focusing on the similarities between Peirce’s work and the approach of the new mechanical philosophy.
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The Category of Thirdness in the New Mechanical Philosophy

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Georgy Kh. Shingarov is one of the few philosophers of the Soviet period who studied the conditioned reflex as a sign system. The originality of his theory, created in accordance with the provisions of dialectical materialism, is shown. He considered the signal in the model of the conditioned reflex as a sign, explaining its formation by the process of dialectical ‘sublation’, i.e. the transformation of a material unconditioned stimulus into an idealized object, devoid of the properties of materiality, but which is the result of the manifestation of matter. The socio-political conditions that determined the features of this theory are described.
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From the history of semiotics in the USSR: Georgy Kh. Shingarov

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From which principal factors did Charles Peirce‘s scientific theory of Semeiotic evolve? How are those components different from foundational features in theories of semiotics.
A major difference is shown in the fact that Semeiotic, a scientific theory of natural Semeioses, arises from Peirce‘s work in logic, especially the logic of relations. A semeiosis is precisely a relational phenomenon, thus a logic of relations is an essential part of the theory of Semeiotic. This essay will provide a roadmap for the development of Semeiotic from Peirce‘s logical researches. The essay concludes with some examples for use of Semeiotic for objective study of the activity of semeioses within various areas of scientific research.
Instead of extensive textual references readers may consult kenketner.net which contains resources underlying the account of Peirce‘s work given here.
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A Survey of Semeiotic as Practice of Reasoning

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This paper addresses the origin, evolution, and explosive profusion of the German Anglicism <italic>der Shitstorm</italic> referring to social media outrage across all registers in German. The word <italic>Shitstorm</italic> was declared <italic>Anglicism of the Year</italic> 2011 in the context of a project initiated by a group of German linguists that was designed to characterize Anglicisms as a positive contribution to the German lexicon. Using detailed corpus analysis, this paper explains the origin of the English etymon, its evolution and resemanticization over time. By comparing data from news media corpora in English and German, this study explains why the Anglicism <italic>Shitstorm</italic> is not perceived as vulgar in German. While German linguists behind the <italic>Anglicism of the Year</italic> intended to change the negative perception of the increasing influence of English in contemporary German, this analysis explains why Anglicisms like <italic>Shitstorm</italic> in German can be problematic in international contexts. From a wider perspective on the semiotics of a general German Anglophilia, the profusion of the Anglicism <italic>Shitstorm</italic> in German is representative of precisely the social media practices the word is used to describe. The case of the Anglicism <italic>der Shitstorm</italic> in German is therefore symptomatic of the influence social media have on all media.
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Ungainly lexical borrowing? The case of the Anglicism der Shitstorm in German

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Animal utterances are metastudied based on a framework describing relations between aspects of utterance, genre, and lifeworld, <italic>form, content, act, time</italic>, and <italic>space.</italic> The study concerns a set of problems: How is context perceived theoretically and empirically? Where are time and space positioned? Is time and space studied separately or as chronotope, as spacetime, as a whole? What does embodied context mean? What are systemic studies? Of the studies two focus on systemic projects, two on complexity and contextual variations, two on time and space as separate phenomena, and three on spacetime. Since aspects such as signs, utterances, and genres evolved before language, they presumably constituted animals’ communicational system, working as a resource for communication even for all species, hominids and humans included. Studying such elements challenges how we conceive how they interrelate, especially in spacetime. The study revealed that spacetime was mostly positioned outside utterances and only occasionally as embodied. Integration of all key elements was not found in the excerpt.
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The Challenge of Positioning Space and Time in Systemic Studies of Animal Utterances as Both Embodied and External Contexts

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