Semiotic Bodies, Aesthetic Embodiments, and Cyberbodies

With the cognitive turn in semiotics, the corporality of the signs in human semiosis has become a focus of attention. It is apparent in verbal, nonverbal, and paralinguistic communication, where the human body is the embodiment of signs. Hardly discovered as a topic of semiotic research, the corporality of signs already appears to be a topic of the past. Faced with virtual realities, simulated bodies, artificial life, new bodily creations in bioinformatic constructs, and with the perspectives of cybernetic symbioses between human bodies and robots in sign processing, the disembodiment of the signs is the new topic on the semiotic agenda.

About the author

Winfried Nöth war bis 2009 Professor für Anglistik/Linguistik und Semiotik sowie Direktor des Wissenschaftlichen Zentrums für Kulturforschung der Universität Kassel. Er ist Professor für Kognitive Semiotik an der Katholischen Universität São Paulo. Er war Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Semiotik und ist Ehrenmitglied der International Association for Visual Semiotics .

Product details

• Assisted by: Guido Ipsen (Editor), Winfried Nöth (Editor)
• Publisher: Kassel University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.2012
• EAN: 9783899581430
• ISBN: 978-3-89958-143-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Intervalle; Intervalle
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies