Semiotix n°13, oct. 2008

Semiotix n°13, octobre 2008

ISSN: 1916-7296

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Editorial Can Semiotics Survive the Petabytes Era? By Paul Bouissac The main stock of semiotics – its epistemological substance so to speak – consists of a set of models that were constructed in order to account for small data samples. (...) But what does happen when the data available are stored in the form of bytes numbering in the tens of thousands of trillions? Read more...

Guest Column

The Communication of Meaning and Knowledge in a Knowledge-Based Economy

By Loet Leydesdorff The articulation of the idea that human beings not only provide meaning to events, but are able to communicate meaning in addition to and in interaction with the communication of information emerged gradually during the 20th century with the development of sociology as a discipline. Read more...

State of the Art Project Narrative: An Interview with David Herman on the State of the Art in Narrative Studies The following text is part of an interview with David Herman regarding the Project Narrative initiative based at Ohio State University and other recent developments in the domain of narrative inquiry. Read more...

World Report

The Semiotic Circle of California By Scott Simpkins In the mid-1980s, a handful of semioticians organized the Semiotic Circle of California at the University of California, Berkeley, a group that remains as eclectic as the city itself. Read more...

World Report

Exploring Levels of Reality: A Metanexus Conference in Madrid (July 2008) By Carlo Scognamiglio The session “Exploring Non-Reduction and Levels of Reality”, within the Metanexus' event “Subject, Self, and Soul: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personhood” (Madrid, 13-17 July, 2008), proposed different points of view on the problem of an antireductionist theory of reality. Read more...

State of the Art The Study of the Semiotics of Law: An International and Interdisciplinary Research Group By Anne Wagner The International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law held its first annual meeting in 2002 after the merger of two pre-existing organisations with different emphases in their theoretical approaches. Read more...

World Report

An International Masters Program in Semiotics is created at Tartu University By Katre Väli and Kalevi Kull The Department of Semiotics at Tartu University is pleased to announce the launching of a new English MA program in the fall of 2009. Read more...

World Report

Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts By Margaret Freeman Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts (MICA) was founded as a nonprofit organization in 2008 by Mark Turner and Donald and Margaret Freeman. Read more...