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Semiology of Autopoiesis (II)

Post By James Williams 23rd February 2022

Selections of the Sign: Unity Maturana and Varela’s Autopoiesis: the Organization of the Living begins with a sentence indebted to George Spencer-Brown and his form of distinction where ‘distinction is perfect continence’. In their version, this becomes ‘A universe comes into being when a space is severed into two. A…

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James is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University.

 

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  • Semiology of Autopoiesis (II)
  • They can remove a monument, but they can’t erase the sign
  • Semiology of Autopoiesis (I)
  • Matter and Sense in Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: Against the ‘Ism’ in Speculative Realism
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