Culture, politics and biology from a biosemiotic perspective

Wheeler, Wendy (2021) Culture, politics and biology from a biosemiotic perspective. Recherches sémiotiques, 39 (1-2). pp. 183-203. ISSN 1923-9920

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In this article I shall offer some considerations on the implications for political thought (broadly conceived) of the relatively new interdiscipline of biosemiotics. The semiological analysis associated with the work of Ferdinand de Saussure is a now familiar part of cultural and political analysis, but its weakness has always been, first, its narrow focus on human uses of language alone, and, second, its related inability to talk about biology. Given the extent to which human mind and behaviour are an effect of biological systems, this is a considerable omission. Joining culture and nature as part of the evolution of semiotic layers in recursive biocybernetic systems, biosemiotics insists there is an ontological and practical link between both that should be part of scientifically informed political theory and policies.

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Uncontrolled Keywords:	semiotics; biosemiotics; bioanthropology; biology; Gregory Bateson; Charles Sanders Peirce; metaphor; culture; nature; evolution; information; Sens
Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 320 Political science 400 Language > 410 Linguistics
Department:	School of Social Sciences (to June 2021)
SWORD Depositor:	Pub Router
Depositing User:	Pub Router
Date Deposited:	11 Feb 2022 09:53
Last Modified:	20 Jan 2023 12:54
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/7173

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