Table of contents

Winfried Nöth, Kalevi Kull - Introduction: Special issue on semiotics of nature (9-11)

The semiotic threshold: Semiosis in the physical nature?

Winfried Nöth - Protosemiotics and physicosemiosis (13-26)

John Deely - Physiosemiosis in the semiotic spiral: A play of musement (27-48)

Lucia Santaella - «Matter as effete mind»: Peirce's synechistic ideas on the semiotic threshold (49-62)

Solomon Marcus - Conway's game of life and the ecosystem represented by Uexküll's concept of Umwelt (63-69)

General ecosemiotics

Winfried Nöth - Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature (71-81)

Zdzislaw Wasik - On the biological concept of subjective significance: A link between the semiotics of nature and the semiotics of culture (83-106)

Soren Brier - Ecosemiotics and cybersemiotics (107-120)

Cultural ecosemiotics

Alf Hornborg - Vital signs: An ecosemiotic perspective on the human ecology of Amazonia (121-152)

Andreas Weber - Cognition as expression: On the autopoietic foundations of an aesthetic theory of nature (153-168)

Christina Ljungberg - Wilderness from an ecosemiotic perspective (169-186)

Svend Erik Larsen - Nature between fact and fiction: A note on virtual reality (187-202)

Andreas Roepstorff - Thinking with animals (203-218)

Semiotic perspectives of the ecological crisis and globalization

Max Oelschlaeger - Ecosemiotics and the sustainability transition (219-236)

Claus Emmeche - Bioinvasion, globalization, and the contingency of cultural and biological diversity: Some ecosemiotic observations (237-262)

Augusto Ponzio, Susan Petrilli - Bioethics, semiotics of life, and global communication (263-275)

Jesper Hoffmeyer - S/E ? 1: A semiotic understanding of bioengineering (277-291)

Luis Emilio Bruni - Biosemiotics and ecological monitoring (293-312)

Riste Keskpaik - Towards a semiotic definition of trash (313-324)

Topics in biosemiotics

Timo Maran - Mimicry: Towards a semiotic understanding of nature (325-339)

Dario Martinelli - Methodologies and problems in zoomusicology (341-352)

Kalevi Kull - Biosemiotics and the problem of intrinsic value of nature (353-365)

Reviews and comments

Noam Chomsky - Beyond «universal grammar» (367-368)

Claus Emmeche - The emergence of signs of living feeling: Reverberations from the first Gatherings in Biosemiotics (369-376)

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