On the Digital Semiosphere: Culture, Media and Science for the Anthropocene
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- PART ONE Spheres and globes -- 1 A semiotic theory of spheres -- 2 A short history of globes -- 3 Juri Lotman and cultural semiotics -- PART TWO Elements of the digital semiosphere -- 4 'Inside thinking worlds' -- 5 Dialogue and dynamics -- 6 Cultural semiotics in a multidisciplinary environment -- PART THREE Micro-scale: Text -- 7 What does culture want? -- 8 Text, transmission, translation -- 9 Text, creation, newness -- 10 Text, preservation, memory -- PART FOUR Meso-scale: Institution -- 11 Planetary systems of culture production -- 12 Bubbles: Production of continual systems -- 13 Blows: Production of discontinuities -- 14 Foam: Production of dynamic multiplicity -- PART FIVE Macro-scale: Global system -- 15 Globe: Production of digital distinctions -- 16 The Digital semiosphere and the technosphere -- 17 Semiosis: Regulating politics and economics -- PART SIX Cultural science for the Anthropocene -- 18 Staged conflict: New demes and classes -- 19 Populations of rules: The constitution and coordination of media-made groups -- 20 Where to now, planet? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.