2001

Table of contents

Winfried Nöth, Kalevi Kull Introduction: Special issue on semiotics of nature 9-11
 
The semiotic threshold: Semiosis in the physical nature?
 
Winfried Nöth Protosemiotics and physicosemiosis 13-26
John Deely Physiosemiosis in the semiotic spiral: A play of musement 27-48
Lucia Santaella "Matter as effete mind": Peirce's synechistic ideas on the semiotic threshold 49-62
Solomon Marcus Conway's game of life and the ecosystem represented by Uexküll's concept of Umwelt 63-69
 
General ecosemiotics
 
Winfried Nöth Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature 71-81)
Zdzislaw Wasik On the biological concept of subjective significance: A link between the semiotics of nature and the semiotics of culture 83-106
Soren Brier Ecosemiotics and cybersemiotics 107-120
 
Cultural ecosemiotics
 
Alf Hornborg Vital signs: An ecosemiotic perspective on the human ecology of Amazonia 121-152
Andreas Weber Cognition as expression: On the autopoietic foundations of an aesthetic theory of nature 153-168
Christina Ljungberg Wilderness from an ecosemiotic perspective 169-186
Svend Erik Larsen Nature between fact and fiction: A note on virtual reality 187-202
Andreas Roepstorff Thinking with animals 203-218
 
Semiotic perspectives of the ecological crisis and globalization
 
Max Oelschlaeger Ecosemiotics and the sustainability transition 219-236
Claus Emmeche Bioinvasion, globalization, and the contingency of cultural and biological diversity: Some ecosemiotic observations 237-262
Augusto Ponzio, Susan Petrilli Bioethics, semiotics of life, and global communication 263-275
Jesper Hoffmeyer S/E ? 1: A semiotic understanding of bioengineering 277-291
Luis Emilio Bruni Biosemiotics and ecological monitoring 293-312
Riste Keskpaik Towards a semiotic definition of trash 313-324
 
Topics in biosemiotics
 
Timo Maran Mimicry: Towards a semiotic understanding of nature 325-339
Dario Martinelli Methodologies and problems in zoomusicology 341-352
Kalevi Kull Biosemiotics and the problem of intrinsic value of nature 353-365
 
Reviews and comments
 
Noam Chomsky Beyond "universal grammar" 367-368
Claus Emmeche The emergence of signs of living feeling: Reverberations from the first Gatherings in Biosemiotics 369-376

                                                                                                        
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