Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective

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.


 

Søren Brier is an Associate professor, PhD, Dr. phil, in the Department of Management, Society, and Communication at the Copenhagen Business School. He is an interdisciplinary researcher that has moved from an MA in biology (ecology and behavioral sciences) over a gold medal thesis in psychology (philosophy of ethology) both Copenhagen U. through a PhD in philosophy of information sciences (Roskilde U.) after 10 year teaching at the Royal School of Library and Information science to a Habilitat in Cybersemiotics combining the natural, life, social and technical sciences with the humanities though an integration of a Peircean biosemiotic and Luhmann's autopoietic system science into a transdisciplinary framework (Copenhagen Business School).Cybersemiotics is now described in several international encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks in linguistics, semiotics, Informations science, cybernetics and system science. He created an interdisciplinary journal in the area called "Cybernetics & Human Knowing" in 1992 and have been editor-in-chief ever since.

Carlos Vidales is a Faculty Member of the Department of Social Communication Studies at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. He is the author of several books, articles and book chapters all related with semiotics and communication theory. He is scholar of the International Communicology Institute, and the general coordinator of the undergraduate program in Public Communication in the University of Guadalajara. He is member of the National Research System of the Mexican Council of Science and Technology. "Managing Editor of the Journal "Cybernetics and Human Knowing".