Ecosemiotics by Timo Maran
This Element provides an accessible introduction to ecosemiotics and demonstrates its pertinence for the study of today's unstable culture-nature relations. Ecosemiotics can be defined as the study of sign processes responsible for ecological phenomena. The arguments in this Element are developed in three steps that take inspiration from both humanities and biological sciences: 1) Showing the diversity, reach and effects of sign-mediated relations in the natural environment from the level of a single individual up the functioning of the ecosystem. 2) Demonstrating numerous ways in which prelinguistic semiotic relations are part of culture and identifying detrimental environmental effects that self-contained and purely symbol-based sign systems, texts and discourses bring along. 3) Demonstrating how ecosemiotic analysis centred on models and modelling can effectively map relations between texts and the natural environment, or the lack thereof, and how this methodology can be used artistically to initiate environmentally friendly cultural forms and practices.-
The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World
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Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture
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Wasteocene
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Blue Humanities
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Mar Menor
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Plantations
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Beyond the Anthropological Difference
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The Open Veins of Modernity
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Ruin Ecology
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Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories
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The Anatomy of Deep Time
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Ecosemiotic Landscape
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Italo Calvino's Animals
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The Virus Paradigm
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The Earth Intoxicated on Imagination
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Anthroposcreens
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Descartes and the Non-Human
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Slime
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Automobility and the Anthropocene
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Growing Hope
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Nonhuman Subjects
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Climate Change Literacy
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Forces of Reproduction
Timo Maran, University of Tartu, Estonia; Dario Martinelli, University of Helsinki, Finland; Aleksei Turovski, Tallinn University, Estonia.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781108931939 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108931936 |
| Title | Ecosemiotics |
| Author | Timo Maran |
| Series | Elements In Environmental Humanities |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2020-12-10 |
| Number of pages | 75 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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