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Expecting the Earth - Life|Culture|Biosemiotics (Paperback)
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Expecting the Earth - Life|Culture|Biosemiotics (Paperback)
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The age of gene-centrism and mechanism is slowly passing. In its
place, the biological sciences increasingly recognise that life
isn't simply a genetically determined programme but is centrally a
matter of information and communication systems nested in larger
communicative systems. The latter include both internal and
external, and natural and cultural, environments. But 'information'
is an under-unanalysed term in relation to living systems.
Accordingly, a new interdiscipline, biosemiotics, has grown up to
study the ontology of sign relations in biological, aesthetic and
technological ecologies. From the Greek bios for life and semeion
for sign, biosemiotics is the study of these intertwined natural
and cultural sign systems of the living. Expecting the Earth draws
on the semiotic philosophy of the American scientist and logician
Charles Sanders Peirce, the semiotic ethology of Jakob von
Uexkull's Umwelt Theory, Gregory Bateson's cybernetic ecology of
mind, Jesper Hoffmeyer's development of biosemiotics, and briefly
upon philosophical precursors such as Gilles Deleuze, Felix
Guattari and Gilbert Simondon, as well as the growth of ecological
developmental biology more widely. In this book, Wendy Wheeler
formulates a history and theory of biosemiotic and
proto-biosemiotic thinking in order to open up new possibilities of
contemporary social, philosophical, aesthetic and technological
engagement. This is essential reading for those interested in these
groundbreaking new developments, and is relevant to the
environmental humanities, social ecology and the life sciences more
generally.
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