Vorlesung: A talk by Dr. Katarzyna Machtyl (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) "Questioning the nature-culture opposition. Figures of sign processes across human and non-human realms" - Details

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Veranstaltungsname	Vorlesung: A talk by Dr. Katarzyna Machtyl (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) "Questioning the nature-culture opposition. Figures of sign processes across human and non-human realms"
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Veranstaltungsformat	in Präsenz
Semester	WiSe 2025/26
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	0
Heimat-Einrichtung	International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
Veranstaltungstyp	Vorlesung in der Kategorie Lehre
Nächster Termin	Dienstag, 27.01.2026 12:30 - 14:00

Lehrende

• GCSC N.N - kein Dozent in Stud.IP (Dr. Katarzyna Machtyl (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland))

Räume und Zeiten

Keine Raumangabe

Dienstag, 27.01.2026 12:30 - 14:00

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Studienbereiche/Modulzuordnungen

• Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften (GGK) / International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) > Zusätzlicher Kurs
• Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften (GGK) / International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) > Forschungsworkshop

Kommentar/Beschreibung

The lecture offers a discussion on the complexity of culture-nature relations in the view of semiotics. Assuming culture-nature entanglement, semiotics questions and challenges the binary opposition and offers interesting approach to the continuity of sign processes across human and non-human realms. Departing from the assumption that life and semiosis converge and that culture is a form of life, semiotics offers various views on life as a whole. What, however, strikes quite significantly is the apparent paradoxicality of such relations. Recognizing complex semiotic landscapes in two axes: culture-nature and time-space the interesting figures of entanglement may be introduced. Möbius strip and Klein surface, although not derived from the very discourse of semiotics seem to offer useful models to grasp the above-mentioned complexity of semiotic landscapes.
Referring to selected semiotic theories and concepts, e.g., Greimassian semiotics, existential semiotics and biosemiotic on the one hand, and to selected approaches within anthropology, e.g., Tim Ingold’s ideas, the lecture aims at offering a model grasping the sophisticated relations of culture and nature. As a case study that reflects the theoretical ideas already mentioned, the visual artistic project of a Polish artist is to be considered. The project not only unintentionally visualizes the semiotic ideas in the discourse of art but also fits the paradoxicality that Möbius strip and Klein surface illustrate.