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Signs Grow : Semiosis and Life Processes.
Following Sebeok, Merrell reminds us that `any and all investigation of nature and of the nature of signs and life must ultimately be semiotic in nature.'
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1996.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1: Of Life and Signs
- 1 Self-referring Signs
- 2 A Vertiginous Whorl
- 3 Signs of Life
- 4 The Merry-go-round of Life
- 5 Order from Chaos: The Merry-go-round of Semiosis
- 6 The Turn of the Scew
- 7 The Life of Signs
- Chapter 2: As Ongoing Semiosis
- 1 Vicious or Virtuous Circle?
- 2 The Birth of Irreversibility
- 3 Emergent Signs
- 4 Semiosis and Autopoiesis
- 5 Congealed Mind and Sublimated Matter
- 6 A One-way Street during Rush Hour
- Chapter 3: The Time of the Mind-Sign
- 1 What Is 'Real'?
- 2 Signs That Sign Themselves
- 3 Facts, Figments, Fantasies
- 4 Time En Bloc?
- 5 The 'Imaginary' and the 'Real' from a Different Glance
- 6 'Dead Time' and Static Mind?
- 7 Or Beyond Reversibility?
- 8 And Somehow All There in One Fell Swoop?
- Chapter 4: A Pluralist Semiotic Universe
- 1 Time in All Directions Simultaneously?
- 2 The Eye ('I') Can't See Itself (as Its Own Icon)
- 3 Is 'Mind-stuff' Restless or Merely Listless?
- 4 Then What Is Semiotically 'Out There'?
- Chapter 5: Space-Time, and the Place of the Sign
- 1 Concerning the Fallacy of Misplaced Firstness
- 2 Enlightened Egomaniacs or Little Boolean Savages?
- 3 Ways of Umwelten
- 4 Our Universe by Any Stretch of the Imagination
- 5 Yet, at the Infinite Stretch It's All the Same
- 6 Linearity Gone Mad?
- 7 So on It Goes, and Where It Ends Nobody Knows
- Chapter 6: Assembly-Line Signs, and Beyond
- 1 On a Dissonant Note
- 2 Yet, Strange Consonances
- 3 A Touch of Contrapuntus
- 4 The Self and Its Conjurors: A Euphonious Blending
- 5 On Beyond: That Other Voice
- Chapter 7: Rhetoric, Syncopation, and Signs of Three
- 1 The Universe Split Asunder: Dissonance Anew
- 2 There's Security in Numbers
- 3 Simultaneously Bending Forward and Doubling Backward
- Chapter 8: Knowing Signs, Living Knowledge.
- 1 Becoming, but Never Arriving
- 2 The Discontinuity of Signs
- The Continuity of Their Becoming
- 3 Signs Subdividing into Themselves
- 4 Myriad Divisions, Untold Folds
- 5 The Language (Symbolic Description) of Life
- Chapter 9: Chance and Legacy
- 1 It's a Sign's World
- 2 The Many and the One Revisited
- 3 No Beginnings or Endings, Only Middles Somewhere in Between
- 4 Yet, the Tyranny of the Closed Book
- 5 And the Infinitely Malleable Text
- Chapter 10: For a Critique of the Autonomy of the Sign
- 1 Random Nomadic Divagations, Deterritorialized Contemplators
- 2 The 'Worm-line's' Ubiquity
- 3 'To Use Words but Rarely Is to Be Natural'
- APPENDIX
- GLOSSARY
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