Biosemiotics

Opening remarks

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Origins and Phases Yagmur Denizhan & Vefa Karatay Classically, the quest for the origin of a complex and dynamic entity -be it life, mind or semiosis- seems to demand an […]

Semiosic Agency: Self-regulated Habituation of Ever-novel Signs via Affective Field Josh Bacigalupi At the conclusion of our group’s presentation at last year’s gatherings, we received two questions that this presentation […]

The Creativity of Cells: Aneural Irrational Cognition Victoria Alexander Baluška and Levin’s (2016) review of the literature on aneural cognition in single-celled organisms, plants, and animal tissues is focused on […]

Vis-à-vis: Signification Does Not Necessitate Any Kind of Backward Causation Claudio Rodríguez 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 […]