8:31 a.m.
Dear members of IMS Environment,
On June 10, we have a full day planned with a lecture in the morning and a mini-colloquium
in the afternoon. As usual you can participate in Dacke or online through Zoom:
https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/61066906240?pwd=RjgAgFEaHu7bPTOSzC7nyK3nYDXayL.1
Hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Erik
Guest Lecture June 10, 10.15-12.00
Claudio Paolucci, professor of philosophy at the University of Bologna, joins us in the
morning to present the concept of "semiotic lifeworlds". Below is the abstract
from the article where he elaborated the concept and attached is a copy of the article. It
is not necessary to read it in advance.
Abstract: If we think of cognition and experience from the enactivist idea of a
structural coupling between organism and environment, we see that this environ-
ment is first and foremost a semiotic environment, crowded with objects, norms,
habits, institutions, and artefacts that shape our minds and represent the back-
ground of our perception of the world. This semiotic environment, which goes far
beyond the opposition between nature and culture, (See Paolucci 2021. Cognitive
semiotics: Integrating signs, minds, meaning, and cognition. Berlin: Springer: ch. 1.) is
a semiotic lifeworld that is important to compare with the classic idea of lifeworld
coming from phenomenology. In this paper, (i) we will first start with a comparison
of the semiotic Lebenswelt and the phenomenological Lebenswelt; (ii) we will follow
the construction of the semiotic lifeworld coming from Peirce’s Anti-Cartesian
essays; (iii) we will make a deep comparison between the phenomenology
coming from Peirce (phaneroscopy) and the phenomenology coming from Husserl,
Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty; (iv) we will show how these very same principles
also ground structuralism; (v) we will show how this new semiotic lifeworld
grounded on phaneroscopy is neither pre-logical nor pre-categorial. Rather, it is
founded on the primacy of “telling” over “showing,” and on the primacy of discourse
over perception.
Keywords: phenomenology; interpretant; Peirce; lifeworld; intuition
Mini-Colloquium: The Meanings of Meaning and Subjects Across Media, 13.15-16
Media have a history. New technologies emerge with new affordances
shaping what can be thought, perceived, and communicated. The
materiality of different media types simultaneously enable and restrict
how meanings and affects are made and conveyed.
In this colloquium, we want to push this line of thought in a novel
direction. Yes, media have a history, And yes, they simultaneously
enable and restrict how meaning and affect are mediated. It seems,
however, as though the meanings of meaning and the affectivity of affect
remain the same -- and, as a consequence, that the subjects subjected to
them, either as producers or perceivers, stay firmly in place. Recent
developments in media studies suggest, on the contrary, that
computational media have paved the way to entirely new kinds of
meaning and affect. The questions that we want to pursue in this colloquium is how
to conceptualize these changes and how the new meanings relate to those
that we have inherited from the past.
Interventions by IMS researchers Erik Erlanson and Anne Holm and the invited guests Chiel
Kattenbelt and Claudio Paolucci