The Bloomsbury Companion to Semiotics, ed. Jamin Pelkey (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), 2022
This chapter presents a new synthesis of the key concepts in computing in a Peircean semeiotic fr... more This chapter presents a new synthesis of the key concepts in computing in a Peircean semeiotic framework. My argument is based on over forty years of experience in computing and ten years of recent research on the primary sources in the history of computing from Leibniz to the Internet. A major part of my research focuses on the unpublished papers of C. S. Peirce (especially during 1896-1912) for his unifying research program that he termed "Logic as Semeiotic," which included the philosophy of science, mathematics, logic, the theory of semeiotic, the design principles of scientific instruments, and theories of automated reasoning and computation. (Much of Peirce's thought is now implicit in the design principles of computing systems.) When we study the full scope of the intellectual history of computing and semiotics, we come to two compelling conclusions: semiotics and computing have been inseparable since 1700, and modern digital binary computer systems are structurally and constitutively semiotic, and thus must be distinguished from anything else we may call "machines." This is a final pre-publication draft of a chapter in The Bloomsbury Companion to Semiotics, slightly revised.
Page 1. Irvine, The Work on the Street 1 The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture Ma... more Page 1. Irvine, The Work on the Street 1 The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture Martin Irvine Georgetown University Pre-press version of a chapter in The Handbook of Visual Culture, ed. Barry Sandywell and Ian Heywood. ...
The Bloomsbury Companion to Semiotics, ed. Jamin Pelkey (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), 2022
This chapter presents a new synthesis of the key concepts in computing in a Peircean semeiotic fr... more This chapter presents a new synthesis of the key concepts in computing in a Peircean semeiotic framework. My argument is based on over forty years of experience in computing and ten years of recent research on the primary sources in the history of computing from Leibniz to the Internet. A major part of my research focuses on the unpublished papers of C. S. Peirce (especially during 1896-1912) for his unifying research program that he termed "Logic as Semeiotic," which included the philosophy of science, mathematics, logic, the theory of semeiotic, the design principles of scientific instruments, and theories of automated reasoning and computation. (Much of Peirce's thought is now implicit in the design principles of computing systems.) When we study the full scope of the intellectual history of computing and semiotics, we come to two compelling conclusions: semiotics and computing have been inseparable since 1700, and modern digital binary computer systems are structurally and constitutively semiotic, and thus must be distinguished from anything else we may call "machines." This is a final pre-publication draft of a chapter in The Bloomsbury Companion to Semiotics, slightly revised.
Page 1. Irvine, The Work on the Street 1 The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture Ma... more Page 1. Irvine, The Work on the Street 1 The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture Martin Irvine Georgetown University Pre-press version of a chapter in The Handbook of Visual Culture, ed. Barry Sandywell and Ian Heywood. ...
Is the cliché " everything is a remix " more than trivially true? The terms remix, appr... more Is the cliché " everything is a remix " more than trivially true? The terms remix, appropriation, sampling, and mash-up are used so generally, in so many contexts, and at different levels of description that they don't provide a useful vocabulary for explanation. 1 " Remix " has become a convenient metaphor for a mode of production assumed (incorrectly) to be specific to our post-postmodern era and media technologies (though with some earlier " precursors "), and usually limited to describing features of cultural artefacts as " outputs " of software processes (especially in music, video, and photography). " Remix " and related terms are used for genres and techniques of composition (collage, assemblage, music remix, appropriation), artistic practices (with a variety of self-reflexive, performative, and critical strategies), media and technology hybridization (new combinations of software functions, interfaces, and hardware implem...
Page 1. Irvine, The Work on the Street 1 The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture Ma... more Page 1. Irvine, The Work on the Street 1 The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture Martin Irvine Georgetown University Pre-press version of a chapter in The Handbook of Visual Culture, ed. Barry Sandywell and Ian Heywood. ...
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