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  • Avatars of Form I
    Vol. 2 No. 42 (2019)

    As with widely spread and used concepts, it is not easy to know what is meant by form. The form that intervenes in the composition of the Aristotelian substance has little to do with the form of the leaves, and these with the form of sentences. The world of form appears to us today as heterogeneous and complex, but also as a vehicle that allows us to establish structural similarities between the most distant conceptual regions (biology and linguistics, physics and logic, mathematics and psychoanalysis).

    From different perspectives and fields of knowledge, the authors gathered here reflect on the concept of form and the different enigmas, incarnations and mutations that science and human beings have unfolded.

  • On Subject and Subjectivity, II
    Vol. 1 No. 41 (2019)

    Starting from the existing general understanding of the concept subject —as function and active principle that can be figurativized until reaching the human subject—, the contributions gathered here explore the different perspectives of analysis that this word has acquired and its inescapable relationship with other terms such as subjectality, subjectivation, subjectivism, intersubjectivity, subjectity, etc.

    This second installment on subject and subjectivity contains critical approaches, articles that resume the definitions developed by the sciences of language and semiotics of structural origin —including the semiotics of the body and tensive semiotics—, works that make semiotics dialogue with other disciplines, and texts that address specific problems in the field of artificial intelligence.

  • On Subject and Subjectivity, I
    Vol. 2 No. 40 (2018)

    For semiotics of linguistic and structural origin, the notion of subject constitutes a cornerstone of the theory, so the interest in resuming the problem of the subject without detaching it from subjectivity —with which it is in fact associated— and facing it as a conceptual knot in itself. In the contributions gathered here, the reader will find from reflections on the epistemological origins of both notions, passing through semiotic analyses of specific cases, to works that link the notions of subject and subjectivity with disciplines such as rhetoric, poetics and philosophy, and texts that link them with intersubjectivity or consider them in light of the new semiotic practices.

  • Environmental Semiotics
    Vol. 1 No. 39 (2018)

    Adoptando una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, los trabajos reunidos en este volumen ponen en el centro de la reflexión la significación de las prácticas socioambientales, con el propósito de fortalecer el  andamiaje conceptual de una semiótica ambiental. Los estudios de caso que se presentan evidencian la pertinencia de estas indagaciones, como así también la posibilidad de incorporar a los mismos agentes en la valoración de sus formas de vida y en la generación de prácticas acordes con su ecosistema.

  • Miscelánea
    Vol. 2 No. 38 (2017)

    Artículos de diversas temáticas, referidos tanto a textos en soporte impreso como digital (videojuegos, Facebook, Twitter), son recogidos en este volumen con el propósito de ofrecer al lector un panorama de la pluralidad de objetos de estudio que reclaman hoy una reflexión semiótica y estimulan el diálogo con otras disciplinas.  

  • The Principle of Narrativity. Tribute to Greimas
    Vol. 1 No. 37 (2017)

    Honoring the scientific spirit of Greimas, who conceived semiotic theory as a process in constant construction thanks to the inherent meta-semiotic activity that animates it, this issue brings together current reflections by Latin-American semioticians on the principle of narrativity. In order to examine the heuristic value of this principle to its full extent, a journey is made from its historical-epistemological origins, going through the great development it had and by which the projection of semiotics took place as a possible methodology for social sciences, to contemporary semiotics, which is called to consolidate its own disciplinary identity and to give answers to the different forms that signification has been acquiring in recent times.

  • Modes of believing
    Vol. 2 No. 36 (2016)

    Believing is part of the so-called epistemic modalities, which are defined as a cognitive force that leads subjects to consider true either something they can verify or demonstrate or something unverifiable —but likely or possible. Therefore, the form taken by that cognitive force is that of knowing —as in the logical or scientific discourse— and believing —implied in political, advertising or religious discourse.

    The contributions in this issue reflect on the cognitive modality of believing and the modes it is presented within the various fields and their discourses: as a determinant of an activity, as an intentional effect, as a mode of existence, or as a form of expression.

  • Argumentación y polifonía enunciativa
    Vol. 1 No. 35 (2016)

    For argumentative semantics, the sense of our words, expressions or statements is not constituted by the things, the facts or the properties that they denote, nor by the thoughts or beliefs that they suggest, but by the polyphonic-argumentative chains or discourses that those words, expressions or statements evoke. Starting from this characterization of sense, the different contributions gathered here adopt a non-referentialist and non-veritativist approach to signification. They also embrace the polyphonic-argumentative slogan according to which behind the words there are no objects but discourses and points of view attributed to different subjects (the speaker, the listener, the doxa, etc.) from which the situations we are talking about get represented in our statements.

  • La paradoja en el discurso
    Vol. 2 No. 34 (2015)

    Both from the point of view of rhetoric and from the point of view of logic, paradoxes constitute a rejection of the doxa, a subversion of our most deeply rooted beliefs and knowledges, therefore our continuing need to provide them with a "solution" that returns us to the limits of common sense or good sense.

    Contrary to such considerations, the persistence of paradoxes in multiple discourses and forms of life over time, as shown by the contributions gathered here, suggests that they constitute a true principle of discursive organization, from which we have not yet finished evaluating its importance and its theoretical and epistemological implications.

  • La inmanencia en cuestión III
    Vol. 1 No. 33 (2015)

    The three installments that constitute Immanence in Question do not aim to establish the meaning that is intended to give to immanence, as an encyclopedia entry would.  Quite the contrary, if something can be affirmed is that the inquiry about this problem has been updated with its different postures and interpretations.  The major acquisition of these reflections and one of their concluding points would be that the question about immanence is one of the distinctive features of semiotics.

    In this third installment, immanence emerges as a double dynamic: a semiotic instance that owns its own strategies to constitute and manifest itself, or a competence to accomplish the semiotic practices.

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