Hopes of Derrida's Reading? On Emergence of Peirce's Texts in the Poststructuralist Context (original) (raw)

Struggle of a description: Peirce and his late semiotics

The paper deals with the problem of Peirce’s theory of signs, placing it within the context of modern semiotics (comparing it with Saussurean semiology, in particular), and considers Peirce’s semiotics from the point of view of his theory of categories (phaneroscopy) and in the terms of his classification of signs. The article emphasizes the complicated system of Peirce’s late, “mature”, semeiotic and his theory (classification) of Interpretant.

Peircean Seeds for a Philosophy of Art 1

It is well known by the scholars of Peirce's philosophy that he didn't leave, among his huge work, something like a 'philosophy of art'. Notwithstanding this fact, I claim that

Material and Mental Representation: Peirce Adapted to the Study of Media and Arts

The American Journal of Semiotics, 2014

The aim of this article is to adapt Peirce’s semiotics to the study of media and arts. While some Peircean notions are criticized and rejected, constructive ways of understanding Peirce’s ideas are suggested, and a number of new notions, which are intended to highlight crucial aspects of semiosis, are then introduced. All these ideas and notions are systematically related to one another within the frames of a consistent terminology. The article starts with an investigation of Peirce’s three sign constituents and their interrelations: the representamen, the object, and the interpretant. A new approach to the interrelations of these three sign constituents is then suggested and manifested in a distinction between representation and neopresentation. This is followed by a critical discussion of Peirce’s three types of representation – iconicity, indexicality, and symbolicity – and their interrelations, which sets the stage for a presentation of what is referred to as the material and mental representation (MMR) model. This model aims to illuminate the problematic relation between material and mental facets of signification triggered by media and art products and other material things and phenomena.

Designing Peirce: the idea of design in Charles S. Peirce semiotics

The underlying hypothesis that guides our research holds that Charles S. Peirce's semiotic program discloses a theory of design. More precisely: that the idea of design is the tacit paradigm that articulates and guides both Peirce's pragmatism and the theories that, within Peirce, are the context and frame of his pragmatic standing: phenomenology, semiotics and metaphysics. The first move was to approach the idea of design, abstracted from its specific problems, methods and applications. This approach to design was based on an empirical and common-sense stand point, in order to find its necessary conditions, its founding problems and, especially, its qualifying marks: the modality of the future, the category of possibility and the discourse of anticipation. The second move was to verify if these conditions, problems and marks were also the fulcrum of Peirce's pragmatism. They were indeed. The third and last move comes from this drift between Peirce's ideas and the id...

Pensamiento diagramático: Notas sobre la semiótica y la epistemología de Peirce

2008

In this paper, I discuss the role of diagrammatic thinking within the larger context of cognitive activity as framed by Peirce’s semiotic theory of and its underpinning realistic ontology. After a short overview of Kant’s scepticism in its historical context, I examine Peirce’s attempt to rescue perception as a way to reconceptualize the Kantian “manifold of senses”. I argue that Peirce’s redemption of perception led him to a series of problems that are as fundamental as those that Kant encountered. I contend that the understanding of the difficulties of Peirce’s epistemology allows us to better grasp the limits and possibilities of diagrammatic thinking.En este artículo se discute el papel que desempeña el concepto de pensamiento diagramático en el contexto de la actividad cognitiva, tal y como es concebida dentro del marco de la teoría semiótica de Peirce y su subyacente ontología realista. Luego de presentar una visión general del escepticismo kantiano en su contexto histórico, s...

“Peirce’s Pragmatism: the Visual and the Virtual in Theory, Life and Scientific Practice”

The present paper is aimed at showing some correlations between Charles Peirce’s life, his intellectual habits as a logician and mathematician, his semiotic theory and his practice as a geodesist. For this purpose, it makes use of Peirce’s ideas about the nature of visual experience, some facts of his intellectual biography, and his definitions of sign and the term “virtual.” It appears that Peirce’s mature pragmatist and semiotic ideas find some support in his early practice as a scientist and a mathematician, thus providing an interesting example of the intersection of scientific practice and philosophical speculation.

Gilles Deleuze: Beyond Peirce,s Semiotics

2012

This paper studies the role of the semiotic discussions of Charles Sanders Peirce, the American philosopher and mathematician, in the formation of Deleuze’s first leading book on cinema, Cinema 1: the Movement-Image, in which the author surpasses Peirce’s semiotics. We will show how Deleuze creates a new form of signs in his second leading book on cinema, Cinema 2: the Time-Image. Deleuze had tried to couple the patterns of Peirce’s semiotics in his first book with the philosophical discussions on different epochs of the classical cinema. In his second book, he tried to surpass Peirce’s semiotics, proposing patterns of new semiotics concerning modern cinema by modeling on Peirce’s semiotics. This paper attempts to propose the Peircian signs in Cinema 1: the Movement-Image and Deleuze’s modeling on the signs in Cinema 2: the Time-Image, showing that such a surpassing for Deleuze is the key point of under-standing philosophy. It helps him to reach his particular semiotics based on bot...