«De-Sign» in the Transmodern World: Envisioning Reality Beyond Absoluteness

by Farouk Y. Seif, Susan Petrilli (Editor), Augusto Ponzio (Editor)

Overview

De-Sign in the Transmodern World integrates design and sign by revealing the mutual reciprocities between design and semiotics, and bridging the gap between humanities and sciences. By recognizing the global scope of semiotics and tolerating the uncertainty associated with design, human beings can go beyond absoluteness and become able to envision a desirable reality in the transmodern world.

This publication examines the fusion of design and semiotics, which is at the core of evolutionary love that encourages us to go beyond what we conventionally perceive into what we are imaginatively capable of interpreting. As semiotic animals, we are capable of developing awareness, relationships, and mediation toward semiosis of an undivided wholeness in flowing movement. Human beings have unlimited »semioethical« responsibility toward each other and toward other-than-human systems. This ethical implication depends on our ability to liberate ourselves from the fallacy of absolute reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034328661
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/16/2019
Series:	Reflections on Signs and Language , #2
Edition description:	New
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Farouk Y. Seif is Professor Emeritus, Antioch University Seattle, USA, an architect, a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, and President of the Semiotic Society of America (2018-2019). His main interests are design for social change, paradoxes, transdisciplinarity, and transmodernity. He has taught in universities and lectured at conferences worldwide. He was the recipient of the 2010 Fulbright Specialists Program at University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is the author of more than 50 articles and a dozen of book chapters.

Table of Contents

1: A Subtle Shift in an Unrecognizable Age – 2: When Absolute Reality Becomes Obsolete – 3: What Is Real Is Not Always True! – 4: Navigating Through Diaphanous Space and Polychronic Time – 5: Transdisciplinarity and the Transmodern Lifeworld – 6: Persistence on Separation and Attempt at Integration – 7: De-sign: The Fusion of Design and Semiotics – 8: Perseverance Through the Paradoxes of De-sign – 9: The Splendor of Design and Diaphanous of Signs – 10: Inseparable Braid: Design, Semiotics, and Love – 11: The Love of Knowing and the Desire for Creation – Epilogue: De-sign: The Mutual Fulfillment of God and Humans