Architectonics of Semiosis (Semaphores and Signs)
Architectonics of Semiosis (Semaphores and Signs)
ISBN: 9780312216573
作者: Edwina Taborsky
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan
出版年: 1998-10-15
定价: USD 79.95
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Societies are understood as architectures for the systematic transformation of energy into information/matter, and, using this hypothesis, are examined within two architectural frames--that of the unilevel and the bilevel society. Architectonics of Semiosis lifts semiotics from its literary-linguistic sphere and expands biophysics from a materialist focus to explore the interrelationships of these two forces of organization within the evolving complexities of sociocognitive forms of order. The conflicts and resolutions between the differential goals of the group's recursive metanarrative and the individual's emergent freedoms of choice are explored as natural aspects of a lyric-poetic evolution of the complexity of energy as operative within sociocognitive forms of reality. This interdisciplinary work offers original examinations of societies as complex codifications of energy, and of human beings as integrated aspects of larger and more complex codifications of energy.