The American Journal of Semiotics back issues from January 2003:
The Dialogic Reality of Meaning
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: This paper offers a non-representational alternative to semiotic notions of meaning as the designatum of signs, the content of messages, or what a text is about. It derives from considerations of how things-artifacts and objects of nature-could mean something to somebody ....
Daddy, Can a Scientist Be Wise?
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: My thinking in this essay, written in 1977, reflects the 1968 Wenner-Gren Conference on Conscious Purpose and Human Adaptation, organized by Gregory, about which I wrote Our Own Metaphor, as well as later conversations, but I had not yet worked with Gregory on Mind and Nature ....
An Ecology of Communication: An Acknowledgement of Gregory Bateson
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: Written from a post-modern perspective, this article makes use of the concepts of obligation, subject position, line of action, discursive form, sentient agent, exchange, mediating technology, intentionality, improvisational performance, and communicative routines to produce an ...
The Logic of the Sacred in Bateson and Peirce
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: By performing an abduction of Bateson and Peirce, we come to understand the logic of the sacred as a semiotic and phenomenological communicative phenomenon. First, I compare and contrast their ideas concerning ontology, epistemology, and logic. Next, I articulate how both ...
Consciousness, Embodiment, and Critique of Phenomenology in the Thought of Gregory Bateson
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: The initiators of information theory had deliberately tried to expunge 'meaning' from aspects of their theory. Bateson's ecology of mind was consistent with physical definitions of information as feedback and constraint yet tied these cybernetic mechanisms into context of ...
Playing with Bateson: Denotation, Logical Types, and Analog and Digital Communication
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: Gregory Bateson's work on play led him to conclude that paradox is the ground of propositions and denotation. Working through the concepts of analog and digital communication, logical typing problems, and various dimensions of "framing" and meta-discourse, I broadly illustrate ...
Gregory Bateson's 'New Science' in the Context of Communicology
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: Jakobson's well-known model of communication includes implicit time and space message-to-code and contact-to-context relations. The symbolic displacement of humans from nature and the possible discovery of human nature occur in the embodied reversibility of these relations ....
Bateson, Peirce, and the Three Person Solution
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: Gregory Bateson identified an array of difficulties in human relationships including double binds, confusion between complimentary and symmetrical relations, and the 'sliding triad'. This essay presents a solution to these and other difficulties in the form of a 'yoga' of ...
A Semiotic Phenomenology of Aesthetic Systems: Reflections on Ornament, Patterns, and Habits in Creative Expression
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: This article investigates the significance of Bateson's concept of metapattern and the intrinsic correlation of his distinctions between the conscious, the aesthetic, and the sacred as they apply to theatre and the visual arts. It entails a series of phenomenological ...
The Logic of Meaning-in-context
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: The idea that a sign has meaning only in context invites serious inquiry into the meaning of meaning, context, and meaning-in-context. In this paper, and following Bateson's ecological approach to the mind, I suggest that meaning is a form of coordination between interacting ...
The Sign of Love: Gregory Bateson and the Family Therapy Paradigm
Jan 01, 2003; ... Abstract: In this essay, I argue for the continuous influence of Gregory Bateson's Communicology on the field of family therapy. My argument is based on a re-examination of Bateson's Palo Alto research period. More specifically, I suggest that family therapy saw its genesis in Batesons ...