Semiotics of Animals in Culture

Zoosemiotics 2.0

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Zoology, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Theory
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Author: ISBN: 9783319729923
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: February 28, 2018
Imprint: Springer Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9783319729923
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: February 28, 2018
Imprint: Springer
Language: English

To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following the old admonition of Montaigne: it is not that animals do not talk, it is us who do not understand them.

Recent research in the field of the anthropology of nature and sociology of sciences and techniques allow to think about the Zoosemiotic issue in a different way. Instead of transplanting the language structures – gestures, LIS, etc. – for a semiotic study of the forms of the human and social meaning, it seems more apt to look at their discourse, and as such, the actual interactions, communicative and scientific as well as practical and functional, between humans and non-humans. This book aims to investigate precisely this hypothesis, known here as Zoosemiotics 2.0, working on several fronts and levels:

· Anthropology

· Languages of the image and visual representations, from art history to cinema

· Old and new media. From literature to comics, from cartoons to TV documentaries but also advertising, music, Web and social networks. All those cultural products that talk about the role of human and non-human in society implicitly proposing (and in some way imposing) a form of articulation of such a relationship.

· Food and feeding rites

· Animalist, vegetarian and vegan movements

· Philosophy: metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics

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To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following the old admonition of Montaigne: it is not that animals do not talk, it is us who do not understand them.

Recent research in the field of the anthropology of nature and sociology of sciences and techniques allow to think about the Zoosemiotic issue in a different way. Instead of transplanting the language structures – gestures, LIS, etc. – for a semiotic study of the forms of the human and social meaning, it seems more apt to look at their discourse, and as such, the actual interactions, communicative and scientific as well as practical and functional, between humans and non-humans. This book aims to investigate precisely this hypothesis, known here as Zoosemiotics 2.0, working on several fronts and levels:

· Anthropology

· Languages of the image and visual representations, from art history to cinema

· Old and new media. From literature to comics, from cartoons to TV documentaries but also advertising, music, Web and social networks. All those cultural products that talk about the role of human and non-human in society implicitly proposing (and in some way imposing) a form of articulation of such a relationship.

· Food and feeding rites

· Animalist, vegetarian and vegan movements

· Philosophy: metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics

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