The Human Psyche Lives in Semiospheres

“I Study When All My Family is Asleep”. Gender, Time and Space in Online Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic,

“…Human experience and actuations materialize in time and space markers (Rosa & Valsiner, 2018). The pandemic declaration suddenly transferred leading daily activities to the homes triggering transitions to new interpretations of self, the other, and known routines.…”

“…Human experience and actuations materialize in sociocultural interactions where temporality and spatiality are fundamental (Rosa & Valsiner, 2018). The concept of chronotope refers to the ground that intertwines contextualization processes (Auer, 1995) occurring in the inbetweens (Buber, 1937) of online/offline interactions in which different layers of human activity become connected.…”

“…Chronotopes of an epoch, events and activity (Barbato & Beraldo, 2020) interweave the grounds of the conditions of socialization between the historical and the situated, the collective and the individual. Cultural psychology argues that there is a co-construction between human experience and socio-historical contexts (Rosa & Valsiner, 2018). If there are changes in the latter, there will be modifications in the modes of experience and agency.…”

Cultural psychology as a theoretical project / La psicología cultural como proyecto teórico

“…The semiotic view on sign mediation is in principle static (even Peirce’ notion of interpretant — dynamic as it is — is merely a small token to adjust the sign system to the variability of meaning-making). The static nature of semiotic accounts is most directly visible in Juri Lotman’s notion of semiosphere (Gherlone, 2013; Lotman, 1992, 2013,Rosa & Valsiner, 2018b). A wholistic concept created on analogy with biology (biosphere), it adequately captures the inherent heterogeneity of the social systems from the societal to individual levels, yet it does not specify the particular structure of the dynamics within the sphere.…”

“…El punto de vista semiótico sobre la mediación de signos es en principio estático (incluso el concepto de Peirce de interpretante, dinámico como es, no es más que una pequeña muestra de cómo ajustar el sistema de signos a la variabilidad de la producción de significados). La naturaleza estática de los postulados semióticos es más directamente visible en el concepto de semiosfera de Juri Lotman (Gherlone, 2013; Lotman, 1992, 2013,Rosa & Valsiner, 2018b). Se trata de un concepto integrador creado por analogía con un concepto de la biología (biosfera) que capta adecuadamente la heterogeneidad inherente a los sistemas sociales desde los niveles individuales y sociales, aunque no especifica la estructura particular de la dinámica dentro de la esfera.…”