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The age of gene-centrism and mechanism is slowly passing. In its place, the biological sciences increasingly recognise that life isn't simply a genetically determined programme but is centrally a matter of information and communication systems nested in larger communicative systems. The latter include both internal and external, and natural and cultural, environments. But 'information' is an under-unanalysed term in relation to living systems. Accordingly, a new interdiscipline, biosemiotics, has grown up to study the ontology of sign relations in biological, aesthetic and technological ecologies. From the Greek bios for life and semeion for sign, biosemiotics is the study of these intertwined natural and cultural sign systems of the living. Expecting the Earth draws on the semiotic philosophy of the American scientist and logician Charles Sanders Peirce, the semiotic ethology of Jakob von Uexkull's Umwelt Theory, Gregory Bateson's cybernetic ecology of mind, Jesper Hoffmeyer's development of biosemiotics, and briefly upon philosophical precursors such as Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Gilbert Simondon, as well as the growth of ecological developmental biology more widely. In this book, Wendy Wheeler formulates a history and theory of biosemiotic and proto-biosemiotic thinking in order to open up new possibilities of contemporary social, philosophical, aesthetic and technological engagement. This is essential reading for those interested in these groundbreaking new developments, and is relevant to the environmental humanities, social ecology and the life sciences more generally.
In this book, Wheeler formulates a history and theory of biosemiotic thinking to open up new possibilities of contemporary social, philosophical, aesthetic and technological engagement.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Baylor University Press
Jesus' promise that "the end" draws near has spawned an expectation of that grand event across various religious groups. This volume examines the abiding social issues that surround the continued presence of apocalyptic anticipation by setting them in historical, present-day, and future manifestations. Approaching this fervent expectation from a broad
Authors: General Conference of Christians expecting the Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1841 - Publisher:
Books about The Second Report of the General Conference of Christians Expecting the Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ. Held in Lowell, June 15, 16, 17, 1841, Etc
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-06 - Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Earth is on the brink of destruction due to rapidly expanding negative energy. Hundreds of years ago, the Council of Intergalactic Enlightenment established the Earth Commission to work with humans in an effort to curtail this destructive negative energy. These Star People have been visiting Alo and his Native American
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-16 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Richard Dinsmore, the world’s most brilliant physicist, and a paranoid schizophrenic, believes that aliens, led by a beautiful humanoid female, Noraa, are coming from the planet Rikenny, fifteen light years away. Dinsmore claims to be a time traveler, who lived through the dystopian future that followed mankind’s accepting a gift
