Transit Semiotics- a manifesto in process

Posted: November 7th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Projects - past and present, Uncategorized, blog posts | Tags: manifesto, semiotics | No Comments »

Transit Semiotics. Yes it seems obscure and so I better defend my ‘brand’ or my intellectual credo or whatever label correctly describes the domain name that one ultimately settles on.

A transit semiotic deals with meaning that moves. A transit semiotics looks at meaning from the viewpoint of mobile information society where informational flows constantly overwrite the seeming certainties of code.

Transit semiotics is interested in the a-signifying systems of a techno-social semiotic system. Another waying of saying this might be to say:  transit semiotics, for me at this point in time,  needs to concern itself with how the message operates through transmodal modulations rather than what it means. This is not to say that ‘meaning’ is no longer important, it  is.  But perhaps meaning doesn’t mean what it used to.

Transit semiotics operates through the body, affect and aesthetics and politics. These foci are borne out of empirical necessity as media systems increasing migrate onto a body that is always in motion and always wired up.

more to come…

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