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Ecosemiotics —cultural side of biosemiotics , relation of n ature and culture

Ecosemiotics and Early Literary Traditions, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment 2011 Alfred K. Siewers, Bucknell University. Ecosemiotics —cultural side of biosemiotics , relation of n ature and culture. (chart from Kalevi Kull).

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Ecosemiotics —cultural side of biosemiotics , relation of n ature and culture

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  1. Ecosemiotics and Early Literary Traditions, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment 2011 Alfred K. Siewers, Bucknell University Ecosemiotics—cultural side of biosemiotics, relation of nature and culture (chart from Kalevi Kull)

  2. Ecosemiosphere—community of meaning expressed in practice/experience of landscape (derived from JuriLotman’ssemiosphere as a community of overlapping worlds of meaning, such as an eco-region) Wooded meadows in rural Estonian culture Oak savanna and prairie in Upper Midwest native American cultures “Otherworld” landscapes in the British islands

  3. autopoiesis and ecopoiesis/ecopoesis (Evan Thompson) Innenwelt and Umwelt (Jakob von Uexküll)

  4. C.S. Lewis and Narnia

  5. Brian Greene and “multiverse”/ “many worlds” theories of physics

  6. Patristic Christian “Pansemiotics” apophatic theology/cosmology= essence is unknowable, we know/experience energies Maximus the Confessor and texts attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite: Nature as the logoi (plural) of the Logos logos=word, purpose, reason, harmony, discourse, story… (Maximus identified the logoi of creation with uncreated divine energies; Dionysius described as “willings”)

  7. Chaucer and Dante’s pilgrimage tales

  8. C.S. Peirce: Sign ---- Object \ / Interpretant

  9. TimoMaran-- Nature-Text (glossed by Peirce’s terms) Text (Sign) -- Author \ \ (Interpretant) Environment (Object) Reader

  10. (combining Maran’s nature-text with Heidegger’s fourfold of the Thing or place-event) Text (Sign)/Sky --- Authorial contexts/ Metonymic Immortals Symbolism Ethos of In-dwelling | | | | | | Environment/Earth --- Reader contexts/ Overlay landscapeMortals Plexity of Time

  11. Aslan as figure of dark ecology? A phenomenological gloss “This was the very reason that you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me [phusis] here a little [on Narnia] you may know me [phusis] better there [in your world].”

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