Steven, List,
Posting links relating to Søren Brier's doctoral thesis: "Cybersemiotics
- Why information is not enough!" Steven Ericsson Zenith wrote:
Because I think it relevant to Peirce-l ... :-)
I'll say! It is gratifying to see a towering synoptic intellect like
Soren Brier's moving ever closer to Peirce's triadic semeiotic as
essential towards the resolution of formidable problems in relating
information, cognition and communication science, so that his most
recent work exactly means to do this by integrating especially Niklas
Luhmann's communicative theory with Peirce's semeiotic. Thank you for
posting links to this work as it got me quickly to the 15 page summary
in English (which I just read and found most stimulating).of his
dissertation.
http://www.cbs.dk/content/download/36989/554713/file/doctoralsummary.pdf
I first became familiar with second (and third) order semiotics through
the work of Bruce Buchanan:
http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/buchanan/homepageBB.htm
which then took me to so much of the work of theorists which I see Brier
attempting to develop and integrate in his own work of the last several
years , the most important of several theoretical threads (including
cybernetics, biosemiiotics, an expansion of Maturana and Varela's
autopoetic theory, a semiotic version of van Uexkull's Umwelt,
Wittgenstein's language games developed by Brier as "sign games,"
:Lakoff & Johnson's cognitive semantics, But perhaps especially Peirce's
triadic semeiotic) which taken together (along with much else, I think)
might eventually evolve into the cybersemiotics of his title or
something like it, to me a most interesting abduction and indeed a
desideratum as I see it.
I hope to be discussing these ideas with you and others on the list in
the near future.
Best,
Gary Richmond
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