Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective

✍ Scribed by Carlos Vidales, Søren Brier

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 564
• Series: Biosemiotics 21
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory. The book opens with chapters that situate the roots of cybersemiotics in Peircean semiotics, describe the advent of the Information Age and cybernetics, and lay out the proposition that notions of system, communication, self-reference, information, meaning, form, autopoiesis, and self-control are of equal topical interest to semiotics and systems theory.

Subsequent chapters introduce a cybersemiotic viewpoint on the capacity of arts and other practices for knowing. This suggests pathways for developing Practice as Research and practice-led research, and prompts the reader to view this new configuration in cybersemiotic terms. Other contributors discuss cultural and perceptual shifts that lead to interaction with hybrid environments such as Alexa. The relationship of storytelling and cybersemiotics is covered at chapter length, and another chapter describes an individual-collectivity dialectics, in which the latter (Commind) constrains the former (interactants), but the former fuels the latter.

The concluding chapter begins with the observation that digital technologies have infiltrated every corner of the metropolis - homes, workplaces, and places of leisure - to the extent that cities and bodies have transformed into interconnected interfaces. The book challenges the reader to participate in a broader discussion of the potential, limitations, alternatives, and criticisms of cybersemiotics.

✦ Table of Contents

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
References
Chapter 2: Cybersemiotic Systemic and Semiotical Based Transdisciplinarity
2.1 Introduction
2.2 How to Formulate the Problem
2.3 Transdisciplinary Paradigms
References
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
References
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
References
Chapter 5: Transdisciplinary Realism
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Methodology of Transdisciplinarity
5.3 The Hidden Third and Peirce’s Synechism
5.4 Conclusion
References
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
References
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
References
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
References
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
References
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
References
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
References
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
References
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)
References
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
References
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
References
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
References
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; Para-Poiesis/Peri-Semiosis
17.10 Conclusion
References
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
References
Index