Semiosferas e formas de vida

índices da necessidade a compreensão de interrelações culturais

Abstract

this article seeks to build a dialogue between different authors who approached the theme of life forms, language and semiosphere. We highlight the seminal paper About the semiosphere published by Iuri Lotman in 1984, The forms of life of Giorgio Agamben (1996 and 2002), the term autopoiesis proposed by Humberto Maturana in 2001 and, finally, the resumption of studies on the semiosphere and The forms of life by Jacques Fontanille in two different propositions, in 2007 and 2015. Authors are not connected in the world of semiotics, which however, in their own way, discuss the forms of life and the way in which the processes of communication, culture and society are intertwined and engenders what is called life. Language at its most complex level of interaction is the differential factor in understanding the transformation of the higher mammal into a human being, as well as in the understanding of the human as a social and collective being. At the end of this text, the question of the collective and humanity is put to the test with the understanding of the crowd as an ontological category of the city, the reticulated crowd and the exodus crowd presented on the occasion of the 5th Seminar of research groups in semiotics.