International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
Vis-à -vis: Signification Does Not Necessitate Any Kind of Backward Causation Claudio RodrÃguez The following presentation will argue that no account of signification—be it semantic, semiotic or organic—requires appealing to backward […]
The Signifier’s Objects: A Temporal Phenomenology through Lacan and Uexküll The connection between Biosemiotics and Phenomenology is natural and necessary. Uexküllian thought, since the time of Heidegger, has pollenated profound […]
The Concept of Umweb: On the Linkages between Umwelten Kalevi Kull Umwelt, the concept introduced by Jakob von Uexküll, has been commonly defined as the subjective world of organism. Once […]
Biosemiotic Bottom-Up Emergence in the Key of Teilhard de Chardin Yogi Hendlin & Daniel Kamp What are the cultural implications of understanding how evolutionary biological constraints gives rise to them? […]
Human Umwelten at the Crossroads of Biosemiotics, Biopower, Biopolitics and Self-Technology Lei Han The connection between biosemiotics, biopower and biopolitics has been a subject of debate among scholars, but there […]
Umwelt as a Trans-sign Network, or The Implications of Biosemiotics to Humanities Katarzyna Machtyl The main thesis of the proposed talk is that biosemiotics has significantly changed and reformulated the […]
The Importance of the Concept of Umwelt in a Changing World Isabel Ferreira In the last decades, humankind has been experiencing the cumulative effects of a profound technological development that […]
The Creative Porpoise Climbs the Semiotic Scaffolding Phillip Guddemi One of Jesper Hoffmeyer’s many innovative concepts in biosemiotics was that of semiotic freedom. I propose to relate Hoffmeyer’s idea of […]
Tales of semiotic freedom Óscar Miyamoto Do we have the means to clearly explain biosemiotics to the general public? Reaching broader audiences is not only feasible, but also a responsible […]
Biological Writing: An Appendix to The Language Metaphor of Life Ľudmila Lacková The language metaphor of life has been proposed as an analogy to the linguistic model, where a specific […]