Reading Time: 8 minutesBy Oscar Miyamoto “Es como si la conciencia retrocediese al momento precedente a la explosión, e interpretase retrospectivamente todo lo sucedido. El proceso en desarrollo es realmente sustituido por este modelo, generado por la conciencia de un partícipe de la acción. Sobreviene una transformación retrospectiva”. (Lotman, 1999 [1993]: 16) La explosión de la Lotmanósfera A […]
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Reading Time: 16 minutesBy Rahul Murdeshwar Orcid ID: 0000-0002-3766-6565 The following paper was written for the 2022 Readings of J. v. Uexküll lectures held by Riin Magnus at the University of Tartu. The concept of umwelt, or the subjective world of an individual organism, can also be applied to artificial intelligence (AI). Just as different organisms have unique […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutesBy Thorolf Johannes Van Walsum I started to understand cats around seven months ago. It happened in the days immediately prior to leaving Canada for Tartu, Estonia. Up in Ottawa saying goodbye to my friends at home, I was high in a concrete apartment building. Josh and his girlfriend were arguing about expenses. Luna, Josh’s […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesI always hated roller coasters; I remember kids – schoolmates – being excited about these death machines, but just the thought of being in one made me nauseous. What is the benefit of being tied down into a chair of a train-like vehicle that runs at high speed, throwing your body back and forth, upwards […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNew issue of the online journal Hortus Semioticus is out! This celebratory issue of Hortus Semioticus honors the tenth time that students and young academics of Semiotics have published their works covering a wide range of topics and subfields and enriching the scope of our field of knowledge. The first of the three articles to consist of […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutesBy Thorolf Johannes Van Walsum As I stepped into the room, a wholesome set of eyes swivelled, turned, peered and glimpsed out from their lounging perches amid the chairs and couches. The first material I was impressed with by the December 16th holiday party of philosophers and semioticians was their magnificent collection of held breaths. […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBy Ana Marić I see the glass glass statue on the floor. Glass…fragileness…clarity…art…gorgon’s piece I am taking the statue and smashing it against the wall Shattering…cutting…tearing apart…dent in the wall I notice an ember leaf on the surface of the river Autumn vibes…wind’s hands…the fluent guidance…panta rei Suddenly, a river devoured the leaf and leaf […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutesWhile finishing my cigarette at 4:00 am in the morning, and getting ready to make another cup of coffee, I was trying to organise my thoughts and figure out a way to structure all my ideas and collected data into a mental model of my thesis. Then suddenly, it hit me! How do I start? […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutesBy Thorolf Johannes Van Walsum A Foray into the World with Semioticians and Philosophers On October 8th, 2022, students of semiotics and philosophy gathered in front of the Tartu humanities building at 9 am. Roughly. Much to the relief of those who were late (and consternation of those who had run to get there ‘on […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutesPauline Suzanne Delahaye and Andrew Mark Creighton Pauline Delahaye is a Zoosemiotician and post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Tartu, author of, A Semiotic Methodology for Animal Studies[1], and General Secretary for the Société française de Zoosémiotique[2]. In the following interview, Delahaye discusses her current research on corvids, including methodological issues she has encountered, […]
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