Volume 69 (2014), 1

The subjects of the study are the semiotic and communicational aspects of rhythm. These aspects are approached from the point of view of a theory called rhythmanalysis, drawing on philosophers such as dos Santos, Bachelard a Lefebvre. The first part explores in what way the structurally oriented semiotics and linguistics contribute to understanding the rhythms.… Read more

The paper depicts the problem of representation as decisive for the deconstructivist reading of Plato, Descartes and Rousseau. Derrida does not admit any difference between construction of meaning in Descartes and its critical destruction in Rousseau. He argues that both of these thinkers operate in order of representation. Despite of their evident disagreement,… Read more

In the paper, cognitive semiotics is presented as a contemporary semiotic discipline interconnected with humanities as well as – through cognitive sciences – natural sciences. The objectives of cognitive semiotics and the above-mentioned sciences can be identical: to shed light on the conditions of the constitution of sense. This constitution is conceived of as a… Read more

The paper deals with the problematic relation between word and image as articulated by Claude Lévi-Strauss’s and Roland Barthes. Occasionally, both of them analyzed this relation. Lévi-Strauss was convicted, that the principle of double articulation, discovered by structural linguistics, can be applied even on fine art, although he acknowledged, that the… Read more

The analysis of the inner structure of algorithms makes the analysis of the development of the semantics of an algorithmic medium possible. The objective of the paper is to show the important stages of the development of the latter as related to new systems of addressing and encoding intended for backing up files as well as for operators. The author argues, that… Read more

Medical context of vital signs which comprises detecting and monitoring “the presence of life” in human body serves as a starting point to our reflection on the varieties of animation or vitality that are attributed to images. The perspective of “vitality” requires a different type of questions addressed to pictures: not what the pictures do (or mean), but what… Read more

The paper deals with the problem of Eco’s (mis)interpretation of some Peirceian themes, mainly in Eco’s two texts: Theory of Semiotics and Kant and the Platypus. The author’s focus is on the problems of the so called Dynamical object as a part of semiosis and of Peirce’s realism. Resulting from the analysis is the main thesis of the article: We cannot conceive of… Read more

Deleuze’s critical reading of Bacon foregrounds the relationships between representation and interpretation, thus making Deleuze’s concepts applicable to the philosophical reflexion of the theory of painting and its communication potential. Therefore, the chief objectives of the paper are to understand the rhizomatic thinking in the perception of the artwork and… Read more

Barthes’s death-of-the-author metaphor strongly influenced the following period’s reflections on the poetics of a literary work. Revisiting the metaphor should show its problematic argumentation core. Some of the main grounds of long surviving of this metaphor are explored, namely its style and foggy argumentation. Consequently, the death of the author is… Read more