Search results for "Zoosemiotics"

Anti-Speciesist Rhetoric

2017

The various laws protecting animals that were established in Nazi Germany (but for the most part were never put into effect) had, among others, the aim of marking the taxonomic and ontological distance between pure animals and impure sub-humans (Jews, homosexuals, the Roma). The attention to and respect for the alpha predator and noble animals was a vertiginous ignoratio elenchi of the concentration camps. With analogous fallacy, today’s anti-human and anti-speciesist eco-fascism, which regularly makes use of the reductio ad Hitlerum (“meat-eaters = Nazis”), avails itself in an irrational and populist way of the rudimentary argumentum ad personam typical of xenophobic and racist propaganda.…

Forms of Animality: The Dog

2018

Animals are not the object of zoosemiotics as discussed here, neither is their language nor any other system of signs that affects them directly as living creatures that communicate, but the forms of animality, forms through which the concept of animal itself is socially constructed and transformed over time. Now, if there is one place in which such forms are plain to see, it is in those areas that focus on their nutrition. Looking at feeding animals as a semiotic activity, this paper wants to focus on what I call a nutritional pact, an implicit agreement that binds humans and animals, and that is being continuously negotiated by cultures. A relationship that advertising deeply contributes …

Introduction: Towards Zoosemiotics 2.0

2018

This volume has at least three directions of discourse. The first is a dialogue between semiotics and other disciplines dealing in animal studies: philosophy, the philosophy of language and mind, the human and social sciences, the cognitive sciences and the neurosciences. The second is a discussion within semiotics, in the passage from zoosemiotics 1.0 to zoosemiotics 2.0. Last but not least is the cultivation of an empirical field of research, or rather a critical exploration of social culture in search of interesting phenomena or, rather, phenomena pertinent to our in-depth theoretical and epistemological study.

Des chaînons manquants dans une sémiotique écologique: le cas des animaux

2021

To approach the very delicate question of the relationship between semiotics and the discourse of ecology, we should first ask the question of the four levels of the research in signification, and then to apply them to ongoing research on animality and zoosemiotics. The goal will be to reconstruct the strong theoretical and epistemological differences among a little number of semioticians.

La grande orchestra degli animali

2017

Frank and Johnny with Evie: Ontological Shifts in a J.R. Ackerley Novel

2018

This contribution tries to investigate the question of how to frame, from the point of view of the af liation models, the relationship with pets. In this regard, We Think the World of You reveals as an exemplary text. The novel in question will be considered as a privileged place where the experience of relationship with ani- mals is assessed, while programs and forms of an interspecies living together take form.

Zoosémiotique 2.0

2019

To semiotise the animal - to narrate it, to say it, to represent it, to think it, to make it an object of science - means to manage the politics of an unsecured threshold: that which separates it, more or less obstinately, from man. To define the animal is to define man, of course. However, it is more interesting to note that, often surreptitiously, giving the animal a place among the "kingdoms" of nature means, in parallel, adding it between the articulation of the social, between cultural institutions (kinship, affection and kinship, affection and affiliations, strategies and conflicts...). In In other words, to make the animal the object of knowledge is to propose a certain political vis…

I corpi del virus

2020

In un articolo recentemente uscito in italiano, Bruno Latour spiega che il nuovo coronavirus illustra in modo eclatante come gli attori non umani irrompano nei nostri spazi collettivi esigendo profonde trasformazioni (e invitando a ripensare così noi stessi al loro interno). Al momento è impossibile valutare questi cambiamenti sul lungo periodo. È chiaro però che SARS-CoV-2 ha avuto subito effetti visibilissimi sulle istituzioni che danno forma al nostro universo collettivo: mercati finanziari, filiere produttive, sistemi sanitari, regolamenti, lockdown. Mi sembra che il luogo di convergenza di questi ambiti tematici sia il corpo, figura in cui si incrociano le isotopie mediche, economiche,…

Zoosemiotica 2.0. Forme e politiche dell'animalità

2017

Questo volume ha tre direzioni di discorso. Innanzitutto, un dialogo fra la semiotica e le altre discipline interessate agli studi animali: la filosofia, la filosofia del linguaggio e della mente, le scienze umane e sociali, le scienze cognitive e le neuroscienze. Non a caso molti degli interventi contenuti in questo volume non sono di semiologi ma di filosofi, sociologi, antropologi, linguisti, filologi, letterati etc. In secondo luogo, una discussione interna alla semiotica, nel passaggio dalla zoosemiotica 1.0 (tradizionalmente più interessata ai linguaggi e alle forme di comunicazione delle diverse specie animali) alla zoosemiotica 2.0, di conserva con altri settori a prima vista oppost…

Translation as artistic communication in the aesthetics of migration: From nonfiction to the visual arts

2017

AbstractIn an increasingly globalized and digitalized world, where the advancement of technologies and media constructions oversimplify and manipulate public beliefs and shared knowledge, the artistic sector seems to provide new networks of solidarity, collaboration and interaction that challenge a world dominated by conflicts and cultural shocks. Against this backdrop, acts of translation within the arts bear witness to humanity and become the ultimate ground for subjective expression and fundamental reflections upon individualist attitudes against migration issues. By putting emphasis on the role of translation in its political transfer of migration into the arts, this investigation draws…