Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective

Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Author: Carlos Vidales
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2021-04-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030527468

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.

Cybersemiotics

Cybersemiotics
Author: Søren Brier
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0802092209

Cybersemiotics not only builds a bridge between science and culture, it provides a framework that encompasses them both.

Transdisciplinary Cybernetics and Cybersemiotics

Transdisciplinary Cybernetics and Cybersemiotics
Author: Soren Brier
Publisher: Cybernetics & Human Knowing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781845402136

The guiding idea behind this collection of papers is a presentation of the transdisciplinary scope of the new semiotics offering a deeper and broader framework than the structuralist semiology that has been the foundation of most European semiotic analyses of culture, texts and languages.

Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

Cybernetics for the Social Sciences
Author: Bernard Scott
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004464492

Bernard Scott’s book explains the relevance of cybernetics for the social sciences. He provides a non-technical account of the history of cybernetics and its core concepts, with examples of applications of cybernetics in psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

Sociocybernetics and Political Theory in a Complex World: Recasting Constitutionalism

Sociocybernetics and Political Theory in a Complex World: Recasting Constitutionalism
Author: Roberto Gustavo Mancilla Castro
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004441271

In Sociocybernetics and Political Theory in a Complex World, Roberto Mancilla posits that because current political and constitutional theory was crafted since the XVII century, in the age of globalisation, Google and Big Data, other arrangements are needed. He proposes a recasting of the ideas of the State, Separation of Powers, The Public/Private Distinction and Constitutionalism by means of cybernetics, a body of knowledge that gave way to the technology that we have today. This will be done by means of a general introduction to sociocybernetics and complexity and then through the critical dismantling of said concepts of political theory and then proposals imbued with newer ideas.

The Hidden Third

The Hidden Third
Author: Basarab Nicolescu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780997301403

Poetry. Philosophy. Translated from French by William Garvin. Foreword by Gonçalo Tavares. "Liminally landing between prose and poetry, science and art, philosophy and spirituality, THE HIDDEN THIRD charismatically disseminates a new renaissance transmission. Leaving the reader breathless. Re-imagined, re-generated. Mind duly sanctified."--Gary P. Hampson "A first phrase is always a first phrase: it begins. And in these poetic theorems, each theorem is always a first phrase."--Gonçalo Tavares "We could ask Basarab Nicolescu about the last constituents of matter or language, since, according to him, language is a truly quantum phenomena."--Michel Camus

Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson
Author: Frederick Steier
Publisher: Cybernetics & Human Knowing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Autopoesis
ISBN: 9781845400323

Gregory Bateson's work continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication, ecology, anthropology, philosophy, family therapy, education, and mental/spiritual health. The authors in this special issue of Cybernetics & Human Knowing (C&HK) celebrate the Bateson Centennial.

Philosophy And Methodology Of Information: The Study Of Information In The Transdisciplinary Perspective

Philosophy And Methodology Of Information: The Study Of Information In The Transdisciplinary Perspective
Author: Gordana Dodig-crnkovic
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2019-04-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 981327753X

The book gives up-to-date, multi-aspect exposition of the philosophy and methodology of information, and related areas within the nascent field of the study of information. It presents the most recent achievements, ideas and opinions of leading researchers in this domain, as well as from physicists, biologists and social scientists. Collaboration of researchers from different areas and fields opens new perspectives for the understanding of information essential in the innovative development of science, technology and society.The book is meant for readers conducting research into any aspect of information, information society and information technology. The ideas presented give new insights for those who develop or implement scientific, technological or social applications. They are especially for those who are participating in setting the goals for science in general and sciences of information in particular.

Biosemiotic Medicine

Biosemiotic Medicine
Author: Farzad Goli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3319350927

This book presents an interpretation of pharmaceutical, surgical and psychotherapeutic interventions based on a univalent metalanguage: biosemiotics. It proposes that a metalanguage for the physical, mental, social, and cultural aspects of health and medicine could bring all parts and aspects of human life together and thus shape a picture of the human being as a whole, made up from the heterogeneous images of the vast variety of sciences and technologies in medicine discourse. The book adopts a biosemiotics clinical model of thinking because, similar to the ancient principle of alchemy, tam ethice quam physice, everything in this model is physical as much as it is mental. Signs in the forms of vibrations, molecules, cells, words, images, reflections and rites conform cultural, mental, physical, and social phenomena. The book decodes healing, dealing with health, illness and therapy by emphasizing the first-person experience as well as objective events. It allows readers to follow the energy-information flows through and between embodied minds and to see how they form physiological functions such as our emotions and narratives.