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Thorolf Van Walsum
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 philosophical insights into the nature of human and non-human worlds, and in return, traditional biosemiotics has held a crucial foothold in phenomenological thought. Without critical…
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Lei Han
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 is still much scope for further research. With particular recourse to the biosemiotic concept of human Umwelten, this paper investigates this connection and further elaborates…
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Matthew McTeigue
Semiosis, Sense-Making and the Being of the Between: Reconciling Autopoietic Enactivism and Biosemiotics through Relational Biology Matthew McTeigue This talk will investigate the autopoietist’s theory of the continuity between life and mind under the auspices of a biosemiotic approach to enactivist philosophy of mind, with a view to resolve a deep-seated tension between the essence…
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Daniel Mayer-Foulkes
The Nature of Living Being: Distinguishing Distinctions The main ideas of the recently published book in the Biosemiotics series, The Nature of Living Being: From Distinguishing Distinctions to Ethics will be presented. Living beings are distinguishing distinctions. Single cells and multicellular organisms maintain themselves distinct by drawing distinctions. This is what organisms are and what they do. From this starting point, key issues examined range across ontology,…
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Jamin Pelkey
Wonder and Embodiment: On Hoffmeyer’s biosemiotic aesthetics Jamin Pelkey Among the many ideas earmarked for ongoing development in Jesper Hoffmeyer’s oeuvre, his sketches of a biosemiotic aesthetics are among the most promising for dispelling pernicious illusions of alienation between human consciousness and the natural world and for healing the untold trauma these illusions have caused.…
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Paul Deshusses
Sebeok’s Razor and the Sign of Three: Hoffmeyer, Chomsky and Mandelbrot Paul Deshusses This presentation will be based on historical archival research conducted at the Thomas Sebeok Archive in Bloomington Indiana, and will review four emblematic and revealing correspondence the researcher held. Sebeok’s three chosen interlocutors for this presentation are Jesper Hoffmeyer, Benoît Mandelbrot,…
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Donald Favareau
An Evening with Jesper Hoffmeyer In this half-hour video presentation, Jesper Hoffmeyer recounts his early days as a “positivist” biochemist, his involvement with the radical student movement in Denmark and Paris in 1968, and how he came to help initiate the current project of biosemiotics – as well as how he sees the future…
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Claus Emmeche & Kalevi Kull
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