In existential semiotics, Eero Tarasti introduces the notion of the zemic world as the fundamental structure of empirical existence. This model articulates Dasein into four interconnected entities: body, person, praxis, and values, which Tarasti designates respectively as Moi1, Moi2, Soi2, and Soi1. The zemic world is not a static configuration but a dynamic field in which meaning…
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Multiple Subjectivities and Cultural Complexity
In the typology outlined by Guido Ferraro, subjectivity is no longer merely collective or intersubjective, but appears fragmented, plural, and unstable. It is the subjectivity of the age of complexity: a composite identity made up of elements that are at times even incoherent with one another. Not a higher synthesis, but a dynamic and often…
Semiotics of Orality: Sense in Action, Body and Voice in Enunciation
Patrizia Violi proposes to consider a specific form of the arts du faire: the art du dire. According to her, semiotics has long neglected this form of meaning production: its textualist tradition has led it to privilege the analysis of already textualized products rather than the practices that generate meaning. The discipline, in other words, has focused…


