Agency as Semiotic Fabrication : A Comparative Study of Latour's ANT
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ajs202231579" target="_blank" >10.5840/ajs202231579</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Agency as Semiotic Fabrication : A Comparative Study of Latour's ANT
Original language description
This text shows that Latour's methodological displacement of the theory of sign into the realm of the general semiological narrative itself truncates his own theory of sign from its essential part, which is a tradition derived from the work of C. S. Peirce. This reduction of the general theory of sign is not just a matter of the given theoretical and methodological jargon or arbitrarily chosen expressions; it also has binding ontological suppositions and consequences. A debate on the semiotic-ontological aspects of actor-network theory (ANT) can be conducted beyond Latour's general division into "the semiotics of discourse" and the "semiotics of things/material semiotics", where the "semiotics of things" should be counter-positional, or at least complementary to, the discourse-centric concept of agency. This perspective (simply put: discourse vs. things) can be viewed in the context of the discussion of the realist and nominalist nature of a sign as a specific relation, which begs the question: By sign do we mean a phenomenon that is constructed solely by the power of the human mind, or do we mean an ontologically unique relation not reducible to human language?
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
American Journal of Semiotics
ISSN
0277-7126
e-ISSN
2153-2990
Volume of the periodical
37
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3/4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
289-315
UT code for WoS article
000789205100006
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