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Academic Curriculum
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PERSONAL
Born September 12, 1944 in Gerolzhofen, Bavaria (Germany)
EDUCATION AND DEGREES
1962 US High School Diploma (exchange student), Collingswood, N.J.
1963 Abitur, Martino Katharineum (founded in 1415), Braunschweig, Germany.
1965-69 Studies at the Universities of Münster, Geneva, Lisbon, and Bochum.
1971 Dr. phil., summa cum laude, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Major: English, Minors: French and
Portuguese (awarded the university prize for outstanding thesis 1971).
1976 Post-doctoral degree (Habilitation), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
TEACHING AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
1969-75 Research Assistant in English Linguistics and Semiotics (Prof. Walter A. Koch), Ruhr-Universität
1976-77 Docent, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
1977-78 Acting Professor of English Linguistics, Universität Aachen, Germany.
1978- Full Professor (Chair, C4) of English Linguistics and Semiotics, Universität Kassel, Germany.
1982-83 & 1995-97 Dean, Faculty of English and Romance Languages, Member of the University Senate.
1985-86 Visiting Professor (Fulbright), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA.
1994-2009 Visiting Professor (Semiotics & Communication Studies), São Paulo Catholic University, Brazil
1999-2008 Director, Research Center for Cultural Studies, Universität Kassel
2014-15 Acting Professor, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
2010- Professor (Cognitive Semiotics), Catholic University of São Paulo
EDITORIAL BOARDS (Selection)
Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics
Carte semiotiche (Bologna)
Cybernetics and Human Knowing (Copenhagen)
DeSignis (Barcelona & Buenos Aires)
Galáxia: Revista transdisciplinar de conunicação, semiótica, cultura (São Paulo)
Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis (Berkeley, Cal.)
ή: Sign Systems Studies (Tartu)
Visio (Québec, Qc.)
The World Language of Key Visual: Computer Science, Humanities, Social Sciences (Bremen)
HONORS
“Outstanding Dissertation” Ruhr-University Bochum (1971)
Honorary Member of International Association for Visual Semiotics (since 1991)
Handbook of Semiotics: Choice outstanding Academic Book of 1992
Mouton d’Or award 2011 for the article “Self-referential postmodernity” in: Semiotica 183: 199-218.
ASSOCIATIONS (Selection)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik (President and Vice-President 1999-2005)
International Association for Semiotic Studies
International Association for Visual Semiotics (Honorary)edit
Dieses Kapitel stellt die Grundlagen und Anwendungsfelder des interdisziplinären Forschungsfelds der Biosemiotik vor, die sich mit Zeichenprozessen zwischen und im Inneren von Lebewesen befasst.
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This paper, written in 1994 and dedicated to Thomas A. Sebeok, is the first ever written on the topic of ecosmiotics. Ecological semiotics (ecosemiotics) is the study of the interrelations between semiotic agents and their semiosic... more
This paper, written in 1994 and dedicated to Thomas A. Sebeok, is the first ever written on the topic of ecosmiotics.
Ecological semiotics (ecosemiotics) is the study of the interrelations between semiotic agents and their semiosic environment. The paper gives a survey of approaches to this field. From the history of ecological semiotics, the study inquires into the conceptions of humans in relation to their environment, focussing (1) on the medieval doctrine of spiritual significations and (2) on the Renaissance doctrine of signatures. From the perspective of general semiotics, the paper discusses Peirce’s theory of semiosis as a triadic interaction between organisms and their environment. From a biosemiotic perspective, the paper presents Uexküll’s theory of meaning and his ”Umweltlehre” and their relevance to ecosemiotics.
Ecological semiotics (ecosemiotics) is the study of the interrelations between semiotic agents and their semiosic environment. The paper gives a survey of approaches to this field. From the history of ecological semiotics, the study inquires into the conceptions of humans in relation to their environment, focussing (1) on the medieval doctrine of spiritual significations and (2) on the Renaissance doctrine of signatures. From the perspective of general semiotics, the paper discusses Peirce’s theory of semiosis as a triadic interaction between organisms and their environment. From a biosemiotic perspective, the paper presents Uexküll’s theory of meaning and his ”Umweltlehre” and their relevance to ecosemiotics.
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This paper, written in 1994 and dedicated to Thomas A. Sebeok, is the first ever written on the topic of ecosmiotics. Ecological semiotics (ecosemiotics) is the study of the interrelations between semiotic agents and their semiosic... more
This paper, written in 1994 and dedicated to Thomas A. Sebeok, is the first ever written on the topic of ecosmiotics.
Ecological semiotics (ecosemiotics) is the study of the interrelations between semiotic agents and their semiosic environment. The paper gives a survey of approaches to this field. From the history of ecological semiotics, the study inquires into the conceptions of humans in relation to their environment, focussing (1) on the medieval doctrine of spiritual significations and (2) on the Renaissance doctrine of signatures. From the perspective of general semiotics, the paper discusses Peirce’s theory of semiosis as a triadic interaction between organisms and their environment. From a biosemiotic perspective, the paper presents Uexküll’s theory of meaning and his ”Umweltlehre” and their relevance to ecosemiotics.
Ecological semiotics (ecosemiotics) is the study of the interrelations between semiotic agents and their semiosic environment. The paper gives a survey of approaches to this field. From the history of ecological semiotics, the study inquires into the conceptions of humans in relation to their environment, focussing (1) on the medieval doctrine of spiritual significations and (2) on the Renaissance doctrine of signatures. From the perspective of general semiotics, the paper discusses Peirce’s theory of semiosis as a triadic interaction between organisms and their environment. From a biosemiotic perspective, the paper presents Uexküll’s theory of meaning and his ”Umweltlehre” and their relevance to ecosemiotics.
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The paper describes semiotic encounters between John N. Deely and Winfried Nöth since the 1980s. While its focus is on Deely’s contributions to physiosemiotics it also offers a general appraisal of Deely’s contributions to general... more
The paper describes semiotic encounters between John N. Deely and Winfried Nöth since the 1980s. While its focus is on Deely’s contributions to physiosemiotics it also offers a general appraisal of Deely’s contributions to general semiotics. A further topic is Deely’s contribution to semiotic terminology, in particular his rejection of the term pansemiotics.
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This paper examines how far the model of the trajectory as a path that a moving object follows from a source to a goal is an adequate model of the sign and of semiotic processes. Just like intentions, meanings, and messages, also signs... more
This paper examines how far the model of the trajectory as a path that a moving object follows from a source to a goal is an adequate model of the sign and of semiotic processes. Just like intentions, meanings, and messages, also signs have sources and goals. A study of the terms by which the Ancient Greeks referred to signs (sêma, semeîon, and tekmérion) reveals that the idea of goal-directedness is inherent in several respects in this early semiotic vocabulary. The paper studies Charles S. Peirce’s model of the sign as a trajectory by which Peirce describes the “agency of the sign”. Peirce’s semiotic trajectories are without beginnings and ends. Guided by final causality towards a semiotic goal, the sign can reach its goal only by asymptotic approximation. The final section of the paper presents brief notes on the trajectories characteristic of sign processes in semiotic models outlined by Algirdas Greimas and Juri Lotman. Greimas distinguishes a plurality of semiotic trajectories...
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Objective: Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important for social purposes, and a new form of governance known as algorithmic governance is emerging. However, there is a need to prevent the abuse of market power and the... more
Objective: Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important for social purposes, and a new form of governance known as algorithmic governance is emerging. However, there is a need to prevent the abuse of market power and the rise of monopolies. In the use of AI for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, it is essential to develop frameworks that overcome the inefficiency of ethical and legal principles to avoid ethical laundering. This paper aims to analyze existing regulations for the use of AI and propose frameworks for the analysis of legal and ethical restrictions to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: This paper employs a combination of national and international theoretical research methods to promote dialogue between various fields of knowledge and an interdisciplinary perspective. Results: The study proposes the need for hetero-regulation, regulated self-regulation, and self-regulation in the use of AI to control the COVID-19 pandemic. It suggests that frameworks for the analysis of legal and ethical restrictions should be developed to overcome critical problems and improve current strategies for using AI. Contributions: This paper provides possible solutions and measures to address critical problems concerning the use of AI in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the need for regulatory frameworks that promote ethical and legal principles to ensure that AI is used effectively and responsibly.
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... Werner Wolf concludes the volume with his paper entitled" Metafiction and metamusic: Ex-ploring the limits of metareference". Based on a definition of meta-reference in contrast to self-reference and... more
... Werner Wolf concludes the volume with his paper entitled" Metafiction and metamusic: Ex-ploring the limits of metareference". Based on a definition of meta-reference in contrast to self-reference and self-reflexivity in the narrower sense, Wolf presents new typological tools for ...
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O texto apresenta uma tradução comentada do conto satírico “O homem-máquina” de Jean Paul de 1789 e contextualiza as ideias do seu autor na história literária, cultural e filosófica sobre as relações entre má- quinas e seres... more
O texto apresenta uma tradução comentada do conto satírico “O homem-máquina” de Jean Paul de 1789 e contextualiza as ideias do seu autor na história literária, cultural e filosófica sobre as relações entre má- quinas e seres humanos desde o século XVIII, o “século das máquinas”, até às teorias atuais sobre os seres humanos como híbridos entre organis- mos biológicos e artefatos mecânicos, hoje chamados de ciborgues.
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Sign Systems Studies is an international journal of semiotics and sign processes in culture and living nature Periodicity: one volume (four issues) per year Official languages: English and Russian; Estonian for abstracts Established in... more
Sign Systems Studies is an international journal of semiotics and sign processes in culture and living nature Periodicity: one volume (four issues) per year Official languages: English and Russian; Estonian for abstracts Established in 1964 Address of the editorial office:
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Sur l'invalidation des lois du temps, de l'espace, du langage et de la logique dans ce pays decrit dans Alice in Wonderland et Through the Looking Glass de L. Carroll. L'A. montre comment la plupart des experiences etranges... more
Sur l'invalidation des lois du temps, de l'espace, du langage et de la logique dans ce pays decrit dans Alice in Wonderland et Through the Looking Glass de L. Carroll. L'A. montre comment la plupart des experiences etranges d'Alice peuvent etre expliquees comme des exemples de processus semiotiques particuliers et anormaux. De l'application des theories semiotiques de G. S. Peirce afin de determiner la structure de ces anomalies dans Alice's Wonderland.
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The "death of photography" is a metaphor of the advent of digital photography. It refers to the end of a medium whose messages were indexical signs of referential objects. Digital image making creates pictures which have lost... more
The "death of photography" is a metaphor of the advent of digital photography. It refers to the end of a medium whose messages were indexical signs of referential objects. Digital image making creates pictures which have lost their referent, but such loss of the photographic referent already existed in traditional photography. Several forms and modalities of this disappearance of the referent in traditional photography are the topic of this paper, e. g., falsification by retouch or the total abstraction from referent in "abstract photography". Special attention is given to the loss of the referent due to photographic self-reference. The photo in the photo, but also the abstract photo aim at hiding the photographic referent partly or even completely. The paper argues that the postphotographic art of Concrete Photography has arrived at photos which are no longer indexical pictures, but must be described as genuine icons
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... VISUAL Y MENTAL 3 2. SEMIÓTICA DE LA IMAGEN 23 3. IMAGEN, TEXTO Y CONTEXTO 43 4. PALABRA E IMAGEN 49 5. IMAGEN, TIEMPO Y PERCEPCIÓN 65 6. COMPUTACIÓN GRÁFICA Y MÚSICA 81 7. SEMIÓTICA DE LA PINTURA 89 8. SEMIÓTICA DE LA ...
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In its last issue, TECCOGS presented a dialogue on issues of Cognitive Semiotics, which Professor Vincent Colapietro, University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI, USA), contributed to this journal in dialogue with Winfried Nöth. Under the... more
In its last issue, TECCOGS presented a dialogue on issues of Cognitive Semiotics, which Professor Vincent Colapietro, University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI, USA), contributed to this journal in dialogue with Winfried Nöth. Under the title “Cognitive Semiotics – Minds, and Machines”, he outlined the foundations of Charles Sanders Peirce’s philosophy of mind and its relevance to the study of human and artificial intelligence. TECCOGSs now brings a new dialogue with Colapietro as the first of a series of three “Reflections”, first presented in dialogue with Winfried Nöth on tidd’s YouTube channel under Lucia Santaella’s curatorship. “What is the semiotic self?”, “How can we change habits”, and “Why sentiments can be logical” are the titles of the three Reflections. In this series, Colapietro adds new chapters to extend his introduction to cognitive semiotics. Among the topics of these Reflections are the self as a cognitive agent, the philosophy of intelligence, and the role of emot...
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The paper is a precis of C. S. Peirce’s semiotic theory of education. It presents this theory of learning and teaching from the perspective of Peirce’s phenomenological categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In the domain of... more
The paper is a precis of C. S. Peirce’s semiotic theory of education. It presents this theory of learning and teaching from the perspective of Peirce’s phenomenological categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In the domain of Thirdness, learning is mediation between ignorance and knowledge, new information and old knowledge. Teaching has its focus on laws, symbols, legisigns, and reasoning. In the domain of Secondness, learners acquire new knowledge from the “hard realities” of real-life experience, from obstacles, and from the resistance caused by error and doubt. Teaching takes place by means of sinsigns (singular signs) and indexical signs. In the domain of Firstness, the learner acquires familiarity with the sensory qualities of objects of experience and learns from free associations, imagination, and acts of creativity. The instruments of teaching are qualisigns, icons, and abductive reasoning. The paper concludes that Peirce’s philosophy of education is holistic in...
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This handbook gives a comprehensive, critical, and up-to-date report on the major areas of research, the theoretical foundations, the history, and the fields of applied analysis in semiotics, the study of signs in culture and nature. In... more
This handbook gives a comprehensive, critical, and up-to-date report on the major areas of research, the theoretical foundations, the history, and the fields of applied analysis in semiotics, the study of signs in culture and nature. In addition to critical surveys of the major theories and results of research, it focuses on the terminology of semiotics and gives comprehensive bibliographical guidelines to each of its articles. The first German edition was published in 1985. In 1990, Indiana University Press published an expanded English version under the title Handbook of Semiotics. The present edition is still further expanded and updated. In view of the diversity of the various schools and trends in semiotics, the approach is a pluralistic one. Interconnections are pointed out, and bridges between seemingly unconnected concepts and theories of semiotics are proposed, while the remaining differences between the diverse approaches are brought out as clearly as possible. The handbook contains the following 92 articles in ten main sections, a bibliography of some 4,000 titles, and an index of names as well as a subject index:
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Este livro apresenta as principais escolas de semiótica do século XX em dez capítulos: (1) Saussure e o projeto semiológico, (2) Hjelmslev e a estratificação do mundo semiótico, (3) Do estruturalismo semiótico à semiótica funcionalista: a... more
Este livro apresenta as principais escolas de semiótica do século XX em dez capítulos: (1) Saussure e o projeto semiológico, (2) Hjelmslev e a estratificação do mundo semiótico, (3) Do estruturalismo semiótico à semiótica funcionalista: a escola de Praga e Roman Jakobson, (4) Ideias semióticas no estruturalismo geral, (5) Roland Barthes: da semiologia à semioclastia, (6) Greimas e o projeto de uma semiótica narrativa do discurso, (7) O campo semiótico de Umberto Eco, (8) Charles Morris e o projeto behaviorista da semiótica como ciência unificada, (9) Semiose na cosmo e na biogênese: Oposição nas raízes da evolução e da vida. (10) Ecossemiótica.
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This introduction to semiotics has its focus on the history of semiotics from Greek antiquity until Charles Sanders Peirce's general theory of signs. Chapters from the history of semiotics include (a) History and definitions of semiotics,... more
This introduction to semiotics has its focus on the history of semiotics from Greek antiquity until Charles Sanders Peirce's general theory of signs. Chapters from the history of semiotics include (a) History and definitions of semiotics, semiology, and semiosis (b) The Graeco-Roman period, (c) From the Middle Ages the Renaissance Period, (d) Semiotics in the 19th Century.
The book includes the following chapters of applied (Peircean) semiotics, (1) Iconicity in Language, (2) Alice's Adventures in the Land of Semiosis, and (3) Peircean Semiotic Foundations of Cognitive Science.
The book includes the following chapters of applied (Peircean) semiotics, (1) Iconicity in Language, (2) Alice's Adventures in the Land of Semiosis, and (3) Peircean Semiotic Foundations of Cognitive Science.
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Strukturen des Happenings, Winfried Nöth’s PhD thesis of 1971, written under the influence of Walter A. Koch’s structuralist text semiotics, is a semiotic study of avant-garde forms of the visual and performing arts of the late 1950s and... more
Strukturen des Happenings, Winfried Nöth’s PhD thesis of 1971, written under the influence of Walter A. Koch’s structuralist text semiotics, is a semiotic study of avant-garde forms of the visual and performing arts of the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s: happening, performance, event, and concept art. The title, ‘Structures of the Happening’, sets a counterpoint to the object of study: Can happenings, in light of the provocative chaos of their programmatic breaks with traditional art forms (painting, theater, music), be said to have structures at all? The argument defended in this thesis is that through their breaking of semiotic structures of previous art forms, happenings and related genres of art direct their viewers’ focus to the very structures these genres break with so that even happenings cannot escape from creating new aesthetic structures.
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This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory. The book opens with chapters that situate the roots of... more
This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory. The book opens with chapters that situate the roots of cybersemiotics in Peircean semiotics, describe the advent of the Information Age and cybernetics, and lay out the proposition that notions of system, communication, self-reference, information, meaning, form, autopoiesis, and self-control are of equal topical interest to semiotics and systems theory. Subsequent chapters introduce a cybersemiotic viewpoint on the capacity of arts and other practices for knowing. This suggests pathways for developing Practice as Research and practice-led research, and prompts the reader to view this new configuration in cybersemiotic terms. Other contributors discuss cultural and perceptual shifts that lead to interaction with hybrid environments such as Alexa. The relationship of storytelling and cybersemiotics is covered at chapter length, and another chapter describes an individual-collectivity dialectics, in which the latter (Commind) constrains the former (interactants), but the former fuels the latter. The concluding chapter begins with the observation that digital technologies have infiltrated every corner of the metropolis - homes, workplaces, and places of leisure - to the extent that cities and bodies have transformed into interconnected interfaces. The book challenges the reader to participate in a broader discussion of the potential, limitations, alternatives, and criticisms of cybersemiotics.
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Semiotic Theory of Learning asks what learning is and what brings it about, challenging the hegemony of psychological and sociological constructions of learning in order to develop a burgeoning literature in semiotics as an educational... more
Semiotic Theory of Learning asks what learning is and what brings it about, challenging the hegemony of psychological and sociological constructions of learning in order to develop a burgeoning literature in semiotics as an educational foundation. Drawing on theoretical research and its application in empirical studies, the book attempts to avoid the problematization of the distinction between theory and practice in semiotics. It covers topics such as signs, significance and semiosis; the ontology of learning; the limits of learning; ecosemiotics; ecology and sexuality.
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Winfried Nöth. 2013.Subversões semióticas de Jacques Lacan. In Semiótica psicanalítica: Clínica da cultura, L. Santaella & F. Hisgail (eds.), 43-61. São Paulo: Iluminuras. (ISBN 978-85-7321-417-8)
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Without biosemiosis, there could be no human language. The volume presents international perspectives that have been inspired by this simple idea. The contributors open up new methods, directions and perspectives on both language in... more
Without biosemiosis, there could be no human language. The volume presents international perspectives that have been inspired by this simple idea. The contributors open up new methods, directions and perspectives on both language in general and specific human languages. Many commonplace notions (language, dialect, syntax, sign, text, dialogue, discourse, etc.) have to be rethought once due attention is given to the living roots of languages. Accordingly, the contributors unite “eternal” problems of the humanities (such as language and thought, origin of language, prelinguistic meaning- making, borders of human language and “marginal” linguistic phenomena) with new inspirations drawing from natural science. They do so with respect to issues such as: how biolinguistics relates to biosemiotics, the history and value of general linguistic and (bio)semiotic models, and how empirical work can link the study of language with biosemiotic phenomena. The volume thus begins to unify perspectives on language(s) and living systems. Biosemiotics connects the sciences with the humanities while offering a new challenge to autonomous linguistics by pointing towards new kinds of interdisciplinary fusion.
