C.W.Spinks


C.W.Spinks Trickster and Ambivalence

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The Trickster - Trickster Point - Chora

C.W.Spinks Peirce and Triadomania, A Walk in the Semiotic Wilderness
Mouton de Gruyter 1991
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The number Three - Trinity - Triads

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Categorical thinking -
theory of knowing or epistemology - Prescission and precision - the essential Thirdness of sign activity - frontier of the sign system where there is the edge between the knowing and knowable world. - Julia Kristeva’s chora and Eco’s „implicature“, it is an edge where of the ambivalence of sign function has freest play - Zeroness – Firstness – Secondness – Thirdness

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Evolutionary Cosmology -

C.W.Spinks Semiosis, Marginal Signs and Trickster
MacMillan 1991
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The nature of signs - referential theory of sign -
sign as process - tri-relative quality to the sign

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Numbers - semantic neutrality of numbers - mystical aspects of numbering -

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object mystique - Wilden: ”
the boundaries of the analogue/digital distinction”. He argues that analogue systems are “pregnant with Meaning whereas the digital domain of Signification is, relatively speaking, somewhat barren”


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