Biosemiotics
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Wendy Wheeler
Open Access Articles:
Donald Favareau, 'The Evolutionary History of Biosemiotics' - from Introduction to Biosemiotics, ed. M. Barbieri, Berlin: Springer, 2006, pp.1-67. URL: http://www.biosemiotics.org/favareau/
Thomas A. Sebeok, ‘Semiotics and the Biological Sciences: Initial Conditions’. Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study. Discussion Paper No. 17. November 1995 URL: http://www.colbud.hu/pdf/DP/DP17-Sebeok.pdf.
Jakob von Uexküll. K. Kull. (2001) ‘Jakob von Uexküll: An Introduction’, Semiotica 134(1/4): 1-59.
URL: http://www.zbi.ee/~kalevi/vaheleht.htm.
Thure von Uexküll. K. Kull and J. Hoffmeyer, ‘Thure von Uexküll 1908-2004, Sign Systems Studies, 33.2, 2005.
URL: http://www.ut.ee/SOSE/sss/kullhoffmeyer332.pdf.
Jesper Hoffmeyer, ‘Epilogue to Semiotics: Biology is immature biology’, in John Deely and Leonard Sbrocchi (eds.): Semiotics 2008. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. SSA and Legas Publishing, Ottawa 2009, 927-942. URL: http://web.mac.com/jhoffmeyer/Jespers_Site/Scientific_publications.html.
Kalevi Kull, (2009). ‘Biosemiotics: To know, what life knows’, Cybernetics and Human Knowing 16(3/4): 81-88. Online open-access to this article is at URL: http://www.zbi.ee/~kalevi/vaheleht.htm.
Kalevi Kull, Terrence Deacon, Claus Emmeche, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Frederik Stjernfelt. (2009). ‘Theses on biosemiotics: Prolegomena to a theoretical biology’, Biological Theory 4(2): 167-173. URL: http://web.mac.com/jhoffmeyer/Jespers_Site/Scientific_publications.html. Also available at: URL: http://www.zbi.ee/~kalevi/vaheleht.htm.
Søren Brier, ‘Cybersemiotics: An Evolutionary World View Going Beyond Entropy and Information into the Question of Meaning’, Entropy 2010, 12(8), pp.1902-1920.
URL: http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/8/1902/.
Frederik Stjernfelt, ‘The Semiotic Body’ in W. Nöth, ed., Semiotic Bodies, Aesthetic Embodiments, and Cyberbodies, Intervalle 10. Schriften zur Kulturforschung, Universität Kassel. Kassel: Kassel University Press, 2006, pp.13-48. URL: http://www.uni-kassel.de/upress/online/frei/978-3-89958-143-0.volltext.frei.pdf.
John Deely, The Green Book: The Impact of Semiotics on Philosophy. Prepared for the First Annual Hommage à Oscar Parland at the University of Helsinki. Presented on the occasion of presentation of the first "Oscar" award to my colleague and friend Professor Eero Tarasti, primus inter pares of the semioticians in Northern Europe, 1st December 2000. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Deely.
John Deely, ‘A Dialogue: ‘A Sign is What!? ("a sign is that which presupposes an object")’. You Tube, Semiotic Sign. A discussion in 5 linked videos. URL: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E9651802BCDC14BF.
Terrence Deacon, Lecture. ‘Language and complexity: Evolution inside out’. You Tube. Video. URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT-zZ0PMqgI.
Gregory Bateson. Chapters 2 and 3 of G. Bateson, Mind and Nature: An Necessary Unity, Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. Chapters 2 and 3 of G. Bateson and M.C. Bateson, Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred, London: Bantam Books, 1988. URL: http://www.oikos.org/baten.htm#Articles.
Paul Cobley, 'The Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics', Biosemiotics, vol. 3, no. 2, 2010. URL:
Susan Petrilli, ‘Significs and Semioethics. Places of the Gift in Communication Today’, in Genevieve Vaughan (ed.), Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible, Toronto, Inanna Publications and Education Inc./Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, 2007, pp. 108-120. URL: http://www.susanpetrilli.com/letture_in_rete_inglese.htm.