{"title":"Jeux de langage et pragmatisme","authors":"F. Latraverse","doi":"10.7202/1027780AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027780AR","url":null,"abstract":"De toutes les notions wittgensteiniennes, celle de “jeu de langage” est une des plus enigmatiques, car, malgre l’evidence qu’elle peut avoir a l’intuition, l’apparente immediatete de son sens, elle se derobe, dans le texte meme, a toute saisie directe. Cet article presente quelques remarques sur cette notion, les definitions qui en sont donnees sont considerees sur un mode critique, la perspective dans laquelle elle a ete introduite est evaluee du point de vue du travail philosophique que Wittgenstein entendait realiser. Dans cet examen, une attention particuliere est portee au deroulement chronologique de l’ecriture de Wittgenstein. Quelques elements en faveur d’un rapprochement avec le pragmatisme peirceen sont esquisses.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115370224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthropological Encounters of a Semiotic Kind","authors":"R. Parmentier","doi":"10.7202/1027778AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027778AR","url":null,"abstract":"This article prints for the first time two oral presentations occasioned by visits to Brandeis University by the medievalist Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak and the classicist Gregory Nagy. The path-breaking and authoritative papers and books by these two scholars provide key insights for anthropologists working from a semiotic perspective. Bedos-Rezak’s proposal that the practice of sealing documents in pre-scholastic France can be seen as evidence for a general semiotic ideology of the “imprint” raises the possibility that the systematicity of sign processes and corresponding metasemiotic discourses reflects esoteric attempts to conceal pragmatic variability in favour of nostalgic coherence. Similarly, Nagy’s insistence on the importance of the performance contexts for the shaping of the Homeric epics is grounded in the recognition that the semiotic ideology of radical “decentring” found in these texts masks the changing course of their actual pragmatic enactment.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125653036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radical Recreation: Non-Iconic Movements of Tradition in Keralite Classical Dance","authors":"J. Lemos","doi":"10.7202/1027772AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027772AR","url":null,"abstract":"Many studies assume that dance develops as a bearer of tradition through iconic continuity (Downey 2005; Hahn 2007; Meduri 1996, 2004; Srinivasan 2007, 2011, Zarrilli 2000). In some such studies, lapses in Iconic continuity are highlighted to demonstrate how “tradition” is “constructed”, lacking substantive historical character or continuity (Meduri 1996; Srinivasan 2007, 2012). In the case of Mohiniyattam – a classical dance of Kerala, India – understanding the form’s tradition as built on Iconic transfers of semiotic content does not account for the overarching trajectory of the forms’ history. Iconic replication of the form as it passed from teacher to student was largely absent in its recreation in the early 20th century. Simply, there were very few dancers available to teach the older practice to new dancers in the 1960s. And yet, Mohiniyattam dance is certainly considered to be a “traditional” style to its practitioners. Throughout this paper I argue that the use of Peircean categories to understand the semiotic processes of Mohiniyattam’s reinvention in the 20th century allows us to reconsider tradition as a matter of Iconic continuity. In particular, an examination of transfers of repertoire in the early 20th century demonstrates that the “traditional” and “authentic” character of this dance style resides in semeiotic processes beyond Iconic reiteration; specifically, the “traditional” character of Mohiniyattam is Indexical and Symbolic in nature.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122620622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La portée sémiotique de la pensée hégélienne","authors":"M. Plante","doi":"10.7202/1027782AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027782AR","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article entend demontrer la portee semiotique exemplaire de la philosophie hegelienne. En ce sens, cette portee est explicitee par l’analyse et le commentaire des passages cles de l’Encyclopedie et de la Logique en ce qui concerne la theorie du signe. L’exemplarite semiotique de cette philosophie est ensuite soulevee grâce a sa mise en rapport avec la semiotique peirceenne, ce qui montre en retour que sa portee semiotique illustre l’indissociabilite entre le langage et la pensee.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"391 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126748148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cult(ture) of the Second Sun: Remembering, Repeating, and Performing the Past Imperfect","authors":"Ryo Morimoto","doi":"10.7202/1027777AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027777AR","url":null,"abstract":"This paper advances a pragmatic semiotic understanding of memory. By focusing on what is done with the real-time act of commemoration (or, the selective citation of memories), I analyze the multifunctional and multi-layered semiosis in society that presupposes and creates one’s experiential continuity between past, present, and future despite sudden (and catastrophic) change. I argue that the 2011 tsunami and ensuing nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, have unearthed parallels between the semiosis of regimentation and commemoration with regard to their interpretability, performativity, and repetitiveness. Following Parmentier, regimentation is a struggle of interpretants for the proliferation of a certain belief associated with the act of remembering/forgetting in grounding the socio-cultural continuity. I conclude by making a cautious suggestion to apply both Saussurean semiology and Peircean semiotics to study the real-time, historically represented and stochastically determined social life of signs.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133561480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le signe en personne chez Peirce, avec échos wittgensteiniens","authors":"André De Tienne","doi":"10.7202/1027779AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027779AR","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article explore certains aspects fondamentaux de la theorie semiotique de Peirce dans ses ecrits de jeunesse et de maturite afin de dresser un cadre logique capable d’elucider le processus conduisant a l’emergence de ce qu’il convient d’appeler une personne. Comme tant Peirce que Wittgenstein s’efforcerent d’apprehender ce processus sans recourir a un vocabulaire psychologique pour eviter les pieges du psychologisme et de l’anthropocentrisme, cet article accompagne chaque etape de son argumentation peirceenne d’une comparaison avec des vues wittgensteiniennes paralleles. Partant de la realisation precoce de Peirce qu’il vaut mieux concevoir le soi ou ego, non pas comme une source generatrice de representations, mais plutot comme leur resultat teleologique continument exprime dans la forme generale d’une hypothese unificatrice parfois appelee “unite de coherence”, notre etude examine successivement comment Peirce separe le concept de personne de celui d’individu, comment il elabore une analogie entre personne et symbole, et comment il analyse le symbole comme type de signe specifique, en insistant surtout sur deux de ses proprietes essentielles (indetermination du vague et du general, et teleologie en evolution). L’article se termine en montrant comment cette analyse s’applique effectivement et de maniere eclairante au concept de “personne”.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131905405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semiotic Ideologies of Race: Racial Profiling and Retroduction","authors":"Veerendra P. Lele","doi":"10.7202/1027776AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027776AR","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the semiotic features and errors of logic at work in racial profiling and racial reckoning. Anthropologists have long researched the concept of human “race”, including biological, linguistic, archaeological, and cultural approaches to this topic, and anthropologists now largely agree that “race” is principally a cultural concept, not a biological one. Yet practices of race involve inferences about physical attributes including human phenotype. While much attention has been given to understanding how race operates as a discursive form through which power is exercised, less analysis has been done on the “logic” of racial reckoning, and more generally, on the semiosis of race. What semiotic forms and ideologies are at work in racial practices? How do semiotic ideologies of race reproduce cultural distinctions and hierarchies? In short, how does race work semiotically and what can a semiotic analysis of race reveal? This paper examines a particular social practice – racial profiling – and the roles of iconicity and retroduction in it. I argue that iconicity is central to practices of race and that iconicity contributes to erroneous conditional probabilities and the retroductive reasoning that mistakenly serve to justify racial profiling.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133719510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Théories-manifestes des cinéastes et artistes face au numérique","authors":"Christa Blümlinger","doi":"10.7202/1027443AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027443AR","url":null,"abstract":"Depuis une quarantaine d'annees, un certain nombres d’artistes-cineastes, se situant du cote de l'art video, dans l’art des nouveaux medias ou encore du cote du cinema dit avant-gardiste, ont successivement pris position face aux changements et innovations technologiques. Il s’agissait non seulement de repenser l’argentique, la fonction esthetique et les composants du cinema, mais aussi des questions de dispositif au sens large du terme. En tant que modalites de textes ecrits, les manifestes occupent une fonction charniere entre creation artistique et theorie. Le present article commente une serie de textes declaratifs tenant lieu de la fonction traditionnelle du manifeste, rediges par des artistes ou cineastes. Les discours sur la numerisation heritent souvent de la rhetorique des grands recits de l’avant-garde, empruntant des attitudes apocalyptiques, utopiques ou prophetiques, tout en s’inscrivant dans une tradition moderniste par la revendication de l’innovation, de l’opposition, ou encore de la critique des images.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133951419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paradigmes théoriques et innovation technologique","authors":"D. Château","doi":"10.7202/1027449AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027449AR","url":null,"abstract":"Je m’efforce de montrer que la reflexion theorique sur les mutations technologiques dans le domaine audiovisuel exige non seulement de considerer les discours que ces mutations suscitent immediatement, mais aussi d’interroger la theorie elle-meme. J’utilise a cette fin le concept de paradigme scientifique (emprunte a Thomas Kuhn) et je montre qu’il y a plusieurs sortes de paradigmes sous-jacents a la theorie du cinema qui peuvent la determiner, la freiner ou l’accelerer, en passant par la mediation des donnees concretes, notamment technologiques. La relation entre paradigme et donnees, outre cette interregulation, a une dimension theorico-historique qui implique le changement de paradigme (par evolution ou revolution), mais peut tout aussi bien relever d’un blocage conceptuel.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132166445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Inevitability of Teleology: From le Dispositif to Apparatus Theory to Dispositifs Plural","authors":"Jane M. Gaines","doi":"10.7202/1027440AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1027440AR","url":null,"abstract":"The article asks how problems of historical method are implied in the question “What Is Left of Apparatus Theory [...] ?”, the topic of the round table for which this paper was first delivered at the IMPACT conference. It goes on to recap the problems with traditional historical approaches : the “from…to” overview, the linear narrative, and the teleological expectation, to name a few. Then, it suggests, following Reinhard Koselleck, that teleologies (like the teleology to end all teleologies – the death of cinema) are unavoidable if one is functioning as a historian-positioned-in-time. Finally, it asks how we are to lay out Baudry and Foucault and trace the “adventures” of the apparatus and apparatus theory when the discourse theory that underwrote their projects critiques the project of “discovering” past events since in the end we are constituting the technology we discover, the same technology that we have said constitutes us.","PeriodicalId":191586,"journal":{"name":"RSSI. Recherches sémiotiques. Semiotic inquiry","volume":"4 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130496999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}