Xenosemiotics. Toward an Alienist Materialism

Abstract Intended as a branch of synthetic biology, xenobiology aims to design and build non-standard life forms, that is constructively venture into biological otherness. According this creative speculative character, it challenges the principles biology itself, which tied fundamentally reductionist approach. Xenobiology does not treat closed code, but rather field ontological innovation; in sense, evokes biosemiotic paradigm accounts for sense-making non-anthropomorphic interactions. Xenobiology, however, can also be intended “divergent” most part astrobiology, namely theory contact with extra-terrestrial life. second meaning, searches speculates on alien biologies. Building these two meanings, paper outline semiotic otherness, or ‘xenosemiotics’, shifts focus from communication morphogenetic information.