On Semiotic Mediation: the bodily conditions of human and more-than-human communication

An interview with Elizabeth Povinelli

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https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v34.74018

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Semiotics, Subjectivity, Metapragmatics, Liberalism

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During the 2022 Spring semester at Columbia University, Joana Plaza Pinto attended two graduate courses of the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Semiotics 2 and Feminist Theory. Under these courses influence, this interview is one of their multiples conversations related to the relationship between gender, intimacy, and language. On semiotic mediation, Povinelli spoke on her connection with Linguistic Anthropology, Psychoanalysis and Peircean Semiotics, the bodily conditions of human and more-than-human communication, the subjectivation forces of the metapragmatics of languages, the semiotic conditions of the subject and the land, and the connections of these issues with racist colonialist forms in Liberalism.

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2022-09-29

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POVINELLI, E. A.; PINTO, J. P. On Semiotic Mediation: the bodily conditions of human and more-than-human communication: An interview with Elizabeth Povinelli. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 34, p. e74018, 2022. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v34.74018. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/74018. Acesso em: 16 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 34 (2022)

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