Events
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Know thyself and beyond™, A postphenomenological mediational analysis of transhuman AI and the self
The third Technosemiotics seminar on May 29 features Jared Smith offering a postphenomenological perspective on AI and the philosophy of transhumanism.
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Language ideologies in ISO codes
22.09.2023 Pascal Vaillant from Université Paris 13 talks about language ideologies in ISO codes. This is part of a regular online seminar series hosted by Working Group 6: Ideologies, beliefs, attitudes of LITHME project (Language in the Human-Machine Era, EU COST action CA19102). To join this or further seminars, please write to bettinamigge [at] ucd…
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Tartu Summer School of Semiotics 2023: “Coming Soon”
What – and how – do we know and acquire knowledge about the future? What is the link between the past, present, and future? Furthermore, what does the capacity of future-making depend on? The aforementioned are some of the guiding questions through which we aim to shed light on and better comprehend the processes of creation, circulation,…
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Technology and Society summer university course
The five-day intensive summer course at the University or Tartu tackles various questions, theories, paradigms and discourses at the intersection of technology, society, and language.
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Technosemiotics
November 13 session
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technosemiotics – Kick-off discussion
We’re starting a discussion series on how semiotic heuristics can help making sense of what is happening with technology and society right now. Join us online on April 24!
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Technosemiotics 2023 finale
On December 4, we meet for a closing session to discuss what we learned in 2023 seminars, and what questions remain.
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Technosemiotics: AI and the (human) semiosphere
On July 10, Alec Kozicki discusses AI through the lens of Lotman’s concept of semiosphere.
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Technosemiotics: languaging
On June 19, we discuss embodied cognition with Theres Fester-Seeger.
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Technosemiotics: On the digital semiosphere
Our October 23 seminar guest is Maarja Ojamaa. We discuss Juri Lotman’s concept of semiosphere, adapted to the contemporary digital world. Maarja says: “I will present the work that we undertook together with Indrek Ibrus and John Hartley in adapting the Lotmanian model of the semiosphere to our digital and globalized times. In this we…