Tunne loodust! Knowing Nature in the Languages of Biosemiotics edited by Donald Favareau and Ekaterina Velmezova
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For the last forty years (and, arguably, even earlier) biosemiotician Kalevi Kull has been pioneer- ing the effort to develop a language of scholarship rich enough to capture the nuanced processes of communication, cooperation and choice-making in the lifeworld of all creatures, from the single cellular to the modern human. In this volume, almost 100 scholars from around the world discuss the influence that K. Kull’s ideas have had on their own work and thinking. The volume also includes a short selection of personal memoirs, and a more than 500 entry Bibliography of K. Kull’s work from 1982 to 2022.
Depuis quarante ans (et, sans doute, bien avant déjà), le biosémioticien Kalevi Kull est un pion- nier dans ses efforts de développer un langage scientifique qui soit suffisamment riche pour saisir les processus nuancés de communication, de coopération et de choix dans le monde de vie de toutes les créatures, depuis l’unicellulaire jusqu’à l’homme moderne. Dans ce volume, presqu’une centaine d’universitaires du monde entier discutent de l’influence que les idées de K. Kull ont eue sur leur propre travail et sur leurs réflexions. Le volume comprend également une courte sélection de souvenirs personnels et une bibliographie (de plus de 500 entrées) des travaux de K. Kull de 1982 à 2022.
Depuis quarante ans (et, sans doute, bien avant déjà), le biosémioticien Kalevi Kull est un pion- nier dans ses efforts de développer un langage scientifique qui soit suffisamment riche pour saisir les processus nuancés de communication, de coopération et de choix dans le monde de vie de toutes les créatures, depuis l’unicellulaire jusqu’à l’homme moderne. Dans ce volume, presqu’une centaine d’universitaires du monde entier discutent de l’influence que les idées de K. Kull ont eue sur leur propre travail et sur leurs réflexions. Le volume comprend également une courte sélection de souvenirs personnels et une bibliographie (de plus de 500 entrées) des travaux de K. Kull de 1982 à 2022.
Table of cоntents
D. Favareau, E. Velmezova
Preface: Knowing nature......................... 11
S. Chebanov Introduction: Leading forward.................. 15
V.N. Alexander When the immune system makes the wrong
choice between incompatible options.......... 33
M. Anderson Book-Human hybridities......................... 39
P. Augustyn From my Umwelttunnel to yours............... 43
J.A. Bacigalupi Free choice and semiosic noise................. 47
T.J. Bennett Kalevi Kull’s biosemiotic applecart............ 53
S. Bhattacharya Kalevi: The center of our semiosphere!........ 57
E. Bisanz Imagining bios beyond nature. A new para-
digm for semiotics and biology.................. 61
L.E. Bruni A binnacle for the Tartuensis loci episteme.. 67
S. Cannizzaro Biosemiotics models of humility: Learning
about living life itself.............................. 71
J.F. Cárdenas- García
Info-Autopoiesis................................... 75
H.-l. Chang Portrait of the biologist as an event-maker.. 79
E.I. Chávez Barreto Choice, arbitrariness and traces............... 83
P. Cobley To know what Kalevi Kull knows............... 89
V.M. Colapietro Lines penned and transcribed on Earth Day
2022................................................ 95
M. Danesi Studying mathematics semiotically: Kalevi
Kull’s path forward.............................. 99
T.W. Deacon Are macromolecular machines like viruses
and ribosomes semiotic?........................ 103
P. Delahaye Elegance.......................................... 109
A. De Tienne A Peircean approach to the Umwelt........... 113
C. Emmeche Styles of dialogue and argument............... 119
T.H. Eriksen Semiosis and environmental suicide........... 125
D. Favareau Semiosis as an ode to joy........................ 131
A. Gare Vegetative semiosis............................... 137
F. Giorgi Life is based on choices.......................... 141
G. Goldberg A brief review of an elaboration of the “Di-
rac diagram”: Speculative riffing on “To
know what life knows” through an abductive “musement” on the dichotomy between the
F-and the S-sciences ............................. 145
P. Guddemi Incompatibility and the double bind............ 155
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Y.H. Hendlin Romantic Biosemiotics........................... 161
R.E. Innis The depths of the surface: Between biosemi-
otics and aesthetics............................... 167
S. Kauffman Kalevi Kull and friendship...................... 173
K. Koppel Experiment and problem-solving: Semiotics
as a practice of inquiry.......................... 177
M. Kull Learning: For the future, from the past...... 183
Ľ. Lacková Choice-making, learning and teaching....... 187
D. Lestel The feeling that it escapes....................... 191
L. Linask Semiosis as choice, learning, and memory... 195
K. Lindström Why nature reserves are a cultural heritage
without becoming a second nature............ 201
R. Magnus To leave no traces by leaving the traces...... 207
M. Maiatsky Why the current disenchantment with semio-
tics?................................................. 211
K. Marais Translation in biosemiotics...................... 217
T. Maran On diversity....................................... 221
A. Markoš, J. Švor- cová, K. Kleisner
Prague report on the consequences of envi- ronmental Kulling................................. 227
D. Martinelli A fantastic semiotician and where to find him
(if you don’t know where, don’t worry, he
will tell you)....................................... 231
D.C. Mayer-
Foulkes
Kalevi Kull, a force of nature................... 235
O.S. Miyamoto Snapshots of a Professor........................ 239
W. Nöth Kalevi Kull’s virus semiotics.................... 245
H. Pattee Biosemiotic models must recognize many
levels of evolution................................. 251
J. Pelkey Kalevi Kull’s biosemiotic aesthetics: To-
ward a domain-general theory of evolution.. 255
S. Petrilli,
A. Ponzio
Human semiosis between inventiveness and
reiteration......................................... 261
I. Pilshchikov Estonian theory revisited........................ 267
O. Puumeister The multiple and the contradictory............ 273
J. Queiroz Processes, artifacts, and semiosis.............. 277
S. Rattasepp Selfless multiplicity............................... 281
C.J. Rodríguez
Higuera
Signifying beyond logic.......................... 285
J. Schumann Physicality......................................... 289
P. Sériot A central topic in Russian semiotics: The
third element between world and thought
(A. Potebnja’s inner form of the word)......... 293
G. Shank Relationality....................................... 299
A.A. Sharov Is life beautiful?................................... 303
J. Sherman Biosemiotics as ironic sophology: The study
of wisdom from its origins....................... 307
E.-R. Soovik,
K. Tüür
Literary scholars taking up theoretical bio-
logy................................................ 311
F. Stjernfelt The semiotic window............................. 315
M. Tamm Semiotics at the age of the Anthropocene.... 319
T. Tiivel My Kalevi Kull – a summary................... 325
Contents 9
P. Torop Kalevi Kull and historical integration........ 329
M. Tønnessen Translating mind to text (and back).............. 333
A. Turovski A set of signs as a basis for successful semio-
sis in animal interactions.......................... 339
J. Valsiner The importance of +................................ 343
T. Vehkavaara How subjective is subjective – subjective-
ness of the objects of Umwelt?................ 347
E. Velmezova “Oma valguses, oma ilmas...”: science
meeting poetry.................................... 353
M. Vitti Rodrigues The space for choice in semiotic threshold
zones................................................ 359
S. Walsh Matthews Empathy as a sign................................ 365
A. Weber Talking to Kalevi Kull means exploring old-
growth forests..................................... 369
D.E. West Dialogues, episodes, habits..................... 373
L. Westling Kalevi Kull in Oregon............................ 377
G. Witzany Biosemiotics, biocommunication and natu-
ral genome editing............................... 383
H. Yu How do we “acquire” a truly pluralist view
of the world?...................................... 389
D. Favareau Brothers: Olevi and Kalevi Kull................ 393
Various authors Birthday greetings from around the world... 399
R. Magnus et al. An extensive bibliography of the works of
Kalevi Kull from 1982 to 2022................. 405
Photo Credits....................................... 441
D. Favareau, E. Velmezova
Preface: Knowing nature......................... 11
S. Chebanov Introduction: Leading forward.................. 15
V.N. Alexander When the immune system makes the wrong
choice between incompatible options.......... 33
M. Anderson Book-Human hybridities......................... 39
P. Augustyn From my Umwelttunnel to yours............... 43
J.A. Bacigalupi Free choice and semiosic noise................. 47
T.J. Bennett Kalevi Kull’s biosemiotic applecart............ 53
S. Bhattacharya Kalevi: The center of our semiosphere!........ 57
E. Bisanz Imagining bios beyond nature. A new para-
digm for semiotics and biology.................. 61
L.E. Bruni A binnacle for the Tartuensis loci episteme.. 67
S. Cannizzaro Biosemiotics models of humility: Learning
about living life itself.............................. 71
J.F. Cárdenas- García
Info-Autopoiesis................................... 75
H.-l. Chang Portrait of the biologist as an event-maker.. 79
E.I. Chávez Barreto Choice, arbitrariness and traces............... 83
P. Cobley To know what Kalevi Kull knows............... 89
V.M. Colapietro Lines penned and transcribed on Earth Day
2022................................................ 95
M. Danesi Studying mathematics semiotically: Kalevi
Kull’s path forward.............................. 99
T.W. Deacon Are macromolecular machines like viruses
and ribosomes semiotic?........................ 103
P. Delahaye Elegance.......................................... 109
A. De Tienne A Peircean approach to the Umwelt........... 113
C. Emmeche Styles of dialogue and argument............... 119
T.H. Eriksen Semiosis and environmental suicide........... 125
D. Favareau Semiosis as an ode to joy........................ 131
A. Gare Vegetative semiosis............................... 137
F. Giorgi Life is based on choices.......................... 141
G. Goldberg A brief review of an elaboration of the “Di-
rac diagram”: Speculative riffing on “To
know what life knows” through an abductive “musement” on the dichotomy between the
F-and the S-sciences ............................. 145
P. Guddemi Incompatibility and the double bind............ 155
8 Epistemologica et historiographica linguistica Lausannensia, No 4, 2022
Y.H. Hendlin Romantic Biosemiotics........................... 161
R.E. Innis The depths of the surface: Between biosemi-
otics and aesthetics............................... 167
S. Kauffman Kalevi Kull and friendship...................... 173
K. Koppel Experiment and problem-solving: Semiotics
as a practice of inquiry.......................... 177
M. Kull Learning: For the future, from the past...... 183
Ľ. Lacková Choice-making, learning and teaching....... 187
D. Lestel The feeling that it escapes....................... 191
L. Linask Semiosis as choice, learning, and memory... 195
K. Lindström Why nature reserves are a cultural heritage
without becoming a second nature............ 201
R. Magnus To leave no traces by leaving the traces...... 207
M. Maiatsky Why the current disenchantment with semio-
tics?................................................. 211
K. Marais Translation in biosemiotics...................... 217
T. Maran On diversity....................................... 221
A. Markoš, J. Švor- cová, K. Kleisner
Prague report on the consequences of envi- ronmental Kulling................................. 227
D. Martinelli A fantastic semiotician and where to find him
(if you don’t know where, don’t worry, he
will tell you)....................................... 231
D.C. Mayer-
Foulkes
Kalevi Kull, a force of nature................... 235
O.S. Miyamoto Snapshots of a Professor........................ 239
W. Nöth Kalevi Kull’s virus semiotics.................... 245
H. Pattee Biosemiotic models must recognize many
levels of evolution................................. 251
J. Pelkey Kalevi Kull’s biosemiotic aesthetics: To-
ward a domain-general theory of evolution.. 255
S. Petrilli,
A. Ponzio
Human semiosis between inventiveness and
reiteration......................................... 261
I. Pilshchikov Estonian theory revisited........................ 267
O. Puumeister The multiple and the contradictory............ 273
J. Queiroz Processes, artifacts, and semiosis.............. 277
S. Rattasepp Selfless multiplicity............................... 281
C.J. Rodríguez
Higuera
Signifying beyond logic.......................... 285
J. Schumann Physicality......................................... 289
P. Sériot A central topic in Russian semiotics: The
third element between world and thought
(A. Potebnja’s inner form of the word)......... 293
G. Shank Relationality....................................... 299
A.A. Sharov Is life beautiful?................................... 303
J. Sherman Biosemiotics as ironic sophology: The study
of wisdom from its origins....................... 307
E.-R. Soovik,
K. Tüür
Literary scholars taking up theoretical bio-
logy................................................ 311
F. Stjernfelt The semiotic window............................. 315
M. Tamm Semiotics at the age of the Anthropocene.... 319
T. Tiivel My Kalevi Kull – a summary................... 325
Contents 9
P. Torop Kalevi Kull and historical integration........ 329
M. Tønnessen Translating mind to text (and back).............. 333
A. Turovski A set of signs as a basis for successful semio-
sis in animal interactions.......................... 339
J. Valsiner The importance of +................................ 343
T. Vehkavaara How subjective is subjective – subjective-
ness of the objects of Umwelt?................ 347
E. Velmezova “Oma valguses, oma ilmas...”: science
meeting poetry.................................... 353
M. Vitti Rodrigues The space for choice in semiotic threshold
zones................................................ 359
S. Walsh Matthews Empathy as a sign................................ 365
A. Weber Talking to Kalevi Kull means exploring old-
growth forests..................................... 369
D.E. West Dialogues, episodes, habits..................... 373
L. Westling Kalevi Kull in Oregon............................ 377
G. Witzany Biosemiotics, biocommunication and natu-
ral genome editing............................... 383
H. Yu How do we “acquire” a truly pluralist view
of the world?...................................... 389
D. Favareau Brothers: Olevi and Kalevi Kull................ 393
Various authors Birthday greetings from around the world... 399
R. Magnus et al. An extensive bibliography of the works of
Kalevi Kull from 1982 to 2022................. 405
Photo Credits....................................... 441