L’origine et le changement dans l’œuvre d’Eliseo Verón

Abstract

Dans la Semiosis social 2, Eliseo Verón revisite les notions fondamentales de la sémiotique en reformulant la question de l’origine et du changement dans la sémiose de l’Homo sapiens et la question de la médiatisation qui configurent une topique centrée sur l’écoulement du temps. Ainsi, le fait que l’origine et le changement soient développés d’un point de vue historique donne lieu à des hypothèses discursives précises dans différents domaines. Oscar Traversa montre que ces idées étaient déjà présentes ou esquissées dans l’œuvre de Verón et plus particulièrement entre La Sémiosis sociale (1987) et La Semiosis social 2 (2013). Pour mener à bien cette synthèse, Verón assigne aux notions contemporaines du darwinisme et aux théories de la complexité un espace singulier qui mérite ici d’être commenté.

Framings, or mind the décalage!

“…Indeed, adopting the verónian socio-semiotic, or semio-pragmatic approach means moving from "the analysis of the concrete mediation of meaning in a certain time-space setting" (Averbeck-Lietz 2021: 76) to a diachronic understanding of cultural objects as composite 'knots,' resulting from a continuous historical dialectic between contextual rules of production and reception of meanings. According to Traversa (2018), this diachronic approach entails a meta-historical perspective that, if properly equipped, could lead semiotics to outline the history of how the increasingly complex "sapiens' capability of semiosis" (Verón 2014: 163) fabricated reality. Or rather, a shared and thoroughly organized perception of the world, starting from "the indexical level […] by the use of the forefinger" (Verón 2014: 163) up to the most complex contemporary semiotic systems in which the verbal, visual, and auditory levels overlap.…”

“…Not surprisingly, Pedemonte and Artigau (2018) pointed out that Bateson's evolutionary and relational approach to concepts such as information and mind, as well as his outlining of a meta-level, were identified by Verón himself (1999) as the basis for his attempt at bridging pure theory and the concrete analysis of semiotic processes. In conclusion, Verón developed his historical or, along with Traversa (2018), metahistorical approach to mediatization through the meta-analysis he learned from Bateson. As such, framing as a tool to tackle socio-semiotics' core questions is a natural, consecutive step.…”

On (missing) links between German, Latin American, and French Mediatization Research: Reflections on Diverse Research Milieus and Their Traditions

“…Verón desenvolve sua teoria da midiatização a partir da história do homo sapiens e seu uso materializado dos signos ao longo do tempo e do espaço. Isso é crucial para a compreensão de sua abordagem (Olivera, 2015;Traversa, 2018). De acordo com essa linha de argumentação, a referência histórico-midiática de Verón não é a prensa de Gutenberg (como em Hepp & Couldry, 2016).…”