Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09546-7
Sergio Torres-Martínez
{"title":"An Integrated Bayesian-Heuristic Semiotic Model for Understanding Human and SARS-CoV-2 Representational Structures","authors":"Sergio Torres-Martínez","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09546-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09546-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136283103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09545-8
Timo Maran
Abstract Jakob von Uexküll’s umwelt theory opens new perspectives for understanding animal extinction. The umwelt is interpreted here as a sum of structural correspondences between an animal’s subjective experience, ecosystem, physiology, and behaviour. The global environmental crisis disturbs these meaning-connections. From the umwelt perspective, we may describe extinction as umwelt collapse: The disintegration of an animal’s umwelt resulting from the cumulative errors in semiotic processes that mediate an organism and ecosystem. The loss of umwelt-ecosystem integration disturbs “ecological memory,” which provides the ecosystem with adaptive modelling and self-design capacities. Making a distinction between core and mediated umwelts, and describing different types of umwelt collapse, are suitable methods for more detailed analysis. The concept of umwelt collapse enables the reinterpretation of extinction, from an internal perspective, as a semiotic breakdown. Such an approach may help us map scenarios of animal extinction, and may lead to successful compensation strategies in adapting to environmental change.
Jakob von uexk的生物环境理论为认识动物灭绝开辟了新的视角。在这里,环境被解释为动物的主观经验、生态系统、生理和行为之间的结构对应的总和。全球环境危机扰乱了这些意义联系。从自然环境的角度来看,我们可以把灭绝描述为自然环境的崩溃:动物的自然环境的解体是由于在调节有机体和生态系统的符号过程中累积的错误造成的。湿地-生态系统整合的丧失扰乱了“生态记忆”,而生态记忆为生态系统提供了适应性建模和自我设计能力。区分岩心和夹层,描述不同类型的夹层坍塌,是进行更详细分析的合适方法。世界崩溃的概念使灭绝的重新解释,从内部的角度来看,作为一个符号学的崩溃。这种方法可以帮助我们描绘动物灭绝的情景,并可能导致适应环境变化的成功补偿策略。
{"title":"Umwelt Collapse: The Loss of Umwelt-Ecosystem Integration","authors":"Timo Maran","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09545-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09545-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Jakob von Uexküll’s umwelt theory opens new perspectives for understanding animal extinction. The umwelt is interpreted here as a sum of structural correspondences between an animal’s subjective experience, ecosystem, physiology, and behaviour. The global environmental crisis disturbs these meaning-connections. From the umwelt perspective, we may describe extinction as umwelt collapse: The disintegration of an animal’s umwelt resulting from the cumulative errors in semiotic processes that mediate an organism and ecosystem. The loss of umwelt-ecosystem integration disturbs “ecological memory,” which provides the ecosystem with adaptive modelling and self-design capacities. Making a distinction between core and mediated umwelts, and describing different types of umwelt collapse, are suitable methods for more detailed analysis. The concept of umwelt collapse enables the reinterpretation of extinction, from an internal perspective, as a semiotic breakdown. Such an approach may help us map scenarios of animal extinction, and may lead to successful compensation strategies in adapting to environmental change.","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135871400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09544-9
Ludmila Lackova, Ahti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen, Morten Tønnessen
{"title":"Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2022","authors":"Ludmila Lackova, Ahti-Veikko Juhani Pietarinen, Morten Tønnessen","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09544-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09544-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09543-w
Kalevi Kull
{"title":"Interview with Gerd B. Müller on Theoretical Biology","authors":"Kalevi Kull","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09543-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09543-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135141991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09539-6
Eylül Tuğçe Alnıaçık Özyer, Rumeysa Çavuş Peksöz
{"title":"Semiocide and Wasteocene in the Making: The Case of Adana Landfill","authors":"Eylül Tuğçe Alnıaçık Özyer, Rumeysa Çavuş Peksöz","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09539-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09539-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09541-y
Sergio Rodríguez Gómez, Germán Jiménez
Abstract Since their introduction in Colombia in the '80s for Pablo Escobar’s extravagant zoo, hippos have become an ecological problem around the basin of the Magdalena River. This article proposes an ecosemiotic discourse analysis of different visions of nature enacted by stakeholders and public opinion around the management of hippos in Colombia. Concretely, we focus on three particular discourses and visions of nature: animalista, narco-cultural, and conservacionista. In this article, we present the relevant social and ecological context of Colombia, the visions of nature theory and the impact of such visions on conservation measures regarding so-called invasive species; we describe and analyze the three visions of nature we center on, and present a computational analysis of discourse dynamics and controversies in Twitter between of such visions of nature; and we reflect on possible courses of action and recommendations about addressing the close interrelation of public discourses and ecosystem conservation by proposing an alternative view, based on the biosemiotic framework of semiocide, to the concept of invasive species.
{"title":"Animalista, Narco-Cultural, Conservacionista. Visions of Nature Around the Case of Hippos in Colombia","authors":"Sergio Rodríguez Gómez, Germán Jiménez","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09541-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09541-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since their introduction in Colombia in the '80s for Pablo Escobar’s extravagant zoo, hippos have become an ecological problem around the basin of the Magdalena River. This article proposes an ecosemiotic discourse analysis of different visions of nature enacted by stakeholders and public opinion around the management of hippos in Colombia. Concretely, we focus on three particular discourses and visions of nature: animalista, narco-cultural, and conservacionista. In this article, we present the relevant social and ecological context of Colombia, the visions of nature theory and the impact of such visions on conservation measures regarding so-called invasive species; we describe and analyze the three visions of nature we center on, and present a computational analysis of discourse dynamics and controversies in Twitter between of such visions of nature; and we reflect on possible courses of action and recommendations about addressing the close interrelation of public discourses and ecosystem conservation by proposing an alternative view, based on the biosemiotic framework of semiocide, to the concept of invasive species.","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09538-7
P. Augustyn
{"title":"Can the ‘Master Narrative’ of Growth be Replaced by New Stories of Shrinking and Degrowth? A Biosemiotic Perspective on the ‘Stories we Live by’","authors":"P. Augustyn","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09538-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09538-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47396819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09540-z
Wim Beekman, Henk Jochemsen
{"title":"The Biosynthesis of Proteins for Nano Engines as a Normative Process","authors":"Wim Beekman, Henk Jochemsen","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09540-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09540-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47495788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09537-8
A. Gare
{"title":"The Philosophy of Anti-Dumping as the Affirmation of Life","authors":"A. Gare","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09537-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09537-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46646297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1007/s12304-023-09542-x
Ivan Fomin
{"title":"Correction to: Poti-Interpretants, Sin-Interpretants, and Legi-Interpretants: Rethinking Semiotic Causation as Production of Signs","authors":"Ivan Fomin","doi":"10.1007/s12304-023-09542-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09542-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45041893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}