BookCarlos Vidales, Søren Brier, editors.
Summary: 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.
Contents:
Introduction
Cybersemiotics in the Information Age
Cybersemiotic systemic and semiotical based transdisciplinarity
From semiotics, to cybernetics to cybersemiotics: the question of communication and meaning processes in living systems
System, sign, information, and communication in cybersemiotics, systems theory, and Peirce
Transdisciplinary Realism
Practice-led research as knowing: a cybersemiotic overview
The blind men and the elephant: Towards an organization of epistemic contexts
Communicology, Cybernetics, and Chiasm: A Synergism of Logic and Semiotic
The Return of Philosophy: A Systemic Semiotics Approach
HCI Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience
The Communication of Form. Why cybersemiotic star is necessary for information studies?
From 'motivation' to 'constraints', from 'discourse' to 'modelling systems': pushing multimodal discourse analysis towards cybersemiotics
Towards a cybersemiotic philology of Buddhist knowledge forms: How to undo objects and concepts in process-philosophical terms
Cybersemiotics and Phenomenology: a critical review of the conditions of possibility of "observation" from a Transcendental Semiotics
Storytelling and Cybersemiotics
Communication and evolution
Prolegomena to Cybersemiotic discourse pragmatics. Total human evolutionary cognition and communication
The cities and the bodies as cyberinterfaces.