Event and Semiodynamics: Tension between Speed and Intelligibility in Communication Processes Cover Image

Událost a sémiodynamika: Napětí mezi rychlostí a srozumitelností v komunikačních procesech
Event and Semiodynamics: Tension between Speed and Intelligibility in Communication Processes

Author(s): Palo Fabuš
Subject(s): Media studies
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd
Keywords: communication; speed; intelligibility; Peirce; event; semiodynamics

Summary/Abstract: The critical study focuses on the logic of tension between speed and intelligibility in all social and communicational levels. Presuming a discursively shaped world with its figures and background one can follow the fundamental conditions of communication under the pressure of speed itself, arrived at only at the price of reduction. With the help of Lyotard’s concept of event and Peirce’s categories of firstness, secondness and thirdness, the study analyzes intelligibility as a degree of reduction needed for discoursive praxis to run smoothly and in a self-confirmatory fashion. This autopoietic logic of communicational processes is coined as semiodynamics. The influence of social sciences is briefly accounted for in the concluding part.

  • Issue Year: 7/2013
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 274-290
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Czech