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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.
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.
Dedicated to the life and work of Heinz Von Foerster, this is a
double issue of the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing.
Dedicated to the life and work of Francisco Varela, this is an
issue of the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing.
Dedicated to the life and work of Thomas Sebeok, this is an issue
of the journal "Cybernetics and Human Knowing."
This special double issue of "Cybernetics and Human Knowing" is
comprised of a collection of papers devoted to the cybernetics and
mathematics of Charles Sanders Peirce with a special focus on its
synergies with George Spencer-Brown's thinking. Peirce was a truly
original American philosopher and logician working in the late
1800s and early 1900s; Spencer-Brown is an English polymath, best
known as the author of "Laws of Form". The contributions reflect
the extraordinary richness of Peirce's work and his relevance to
present concerns in cybernetics. The similarities in the focus on
some of the deep foundational subjects are astonishing, amongst
those especially the concept of the void or Firstness and the
continuity of mind and matter.
A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition
and communication that unites the living and the cultural world.
What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of
the information and computational realms of the non-living natural
and technical world. Cybersemiotics provides such a framework. By
integrating cybernetic information theory into the unique semiotic
framework of C.S. Peirce, S ren Brier attempts to find a unified
conceptual framework that encompasses the complex area of
information, cognition, and communication science. This integration
is performed through Niklas Luhmann's autopoietic systems theory of
social communication. The link between cybernetics and semiotics
is, further, an ethological and evolutionary theory of embodiment
combined with Lakoff and Johnson's 'philosophy in the flesh.' This
demands the development of a transdisciplinary philosophy of
knowledge as much common sense as it is cultured in the humanities
and the sciences. Such an epistemological and ontological framework
is also developed in this volume. Cybersemiotics not only builds a
bridge between science and culture, it provides a framework that
encompasses them both. The cybersemiotic framework offers a
platform for a new level of global dialogue between knowledge
systems, including a view of science that does not compete with
religion but offers the possibility for mutual and fruitful
exchange.
Cybernetics and human knowing: a journal of second-order
cybernetics, autopoieses and cyber-semiotics.A quarterly
international multi- and transdisciplinary journal devoted to the
new understandings of the self-organizing processes of information
in human knowing that have arisen through the cybernetics of
cybernetics, or second order cybernetics, its relation and
relevance to other interdisciplinary approaches such as C.S.
Pierce's semiotics.
This book brings together international experts on the application
of Niklas Luhmann's theory of society as autopoietic communication.
Luhmann's sociological systems theory is counter-intuitive and in
its detached coolness difficult for many to understand and accept.
Naturally they ask: is it really worth the trouble to learn? This
book demonstrates what this combination of systems theory,
Batesonian information theory, von Foerster's second-order
cybernetics, Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis and Husserl's
phenomenology can offer. The book is produced in cooperation with
the Sociocybernetic Group and Copenhagen Business School.
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