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E|C n. 41, 2024

Together. Rhythms of Collectives and Practices of Coexistence

Edited by Giuditta Bassano (LUMSA, Roma), Michele Dentico (Università per stranieri, Perugia; Sapienza Università di Roma), Bianca Terracciano (Sapienza University of Rome)

This issue of E|C is dedicated to exploring the conditions of coexistence from a semiotic approach, considered a meaning effect. Investigating the forms of living together involves analysing the processes and systems that create a suitable environment for coexistence. This environment is regarded as a semiotic space of relationships that may be conflictual or peaceful, negotiated or imposed, but always active and participatory in a collective society.

This objective can be approached from a Semiotic perspective, which is anti-essentialist, non-ontological and non-reductionist. Semiotics is, in this regard, specific to other human sciences and includes all agents of social change and meaning, regardless of their form, such as human and non-human, living and non-living, objects, animals, technologies, microbes, forces, whether political or atmospheric, earthly or otherworldly.

According to Landowski and Marrone, the social can be understood as a meaning effect. There is nothing inherently social, but it is created through networks and mediations, as per Latour. Therefore, this issue is open to all analyses adopting the various semiotic approaches (sociosemiotics, ethnosemiotics, semiotics of culture, etc.) to understand and criticise social meaning. Such approaches share a common epistemological orientation and methodology, as highlighted by Fabbri.

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