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Digitality
Digitality

Author(s): Anton Markoš
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: I have struggled with the paper written by Hoffmeyer and Emmeche that is quoted above many times since I first discovered it in the late 1990s; and for many years, I could not understand what I find disappointing about the idea. My answer today (Markoš et al. 2009, Markoš, Faltýnek 2011) is that nothing in this word can exist in a purely digital form: ‘digitality’ resides only in the virtual world of ‘objective’ reality that is exclusively of our making (Deely 2009) – it is only there that we find numbers, alphabets, syllogisms and terms, clare et distincte. Only there can the coding and the copying be absolute, invariant, and error-proof. No internally existing semiosis is required in this idealized, non-physical world of ‘objective’ entities.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 101-102
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: English