The paper offers a reading of the work artist Rachel Whiteread. reception Whiteread's has focused on its site-specific, symbolic and memorial nature, understood as series mediations metonymies for hidden social personal contexts histories. claims that such accounts overlook what may be more radical disquieting aspect Whiteread’s work; sculptures not primarily concerned with memory work, but rat...

I propose a new interpretation of Spinoza’s obscure but important concept ‘expression’. Any account Spinozistic expression must be able to fulfil two principal requirements. First, it accommodate all the relevant cases ‘to express’ (exprimire) posited by Spinoza in Ethics. Second, deal with fact that for instances are involve’ (involvere). By taking both and as coextensive conceive’, contempora...

Recursion or self-reference is a key feature of contemporary research and writing in semiotics. The paper commences by focusing on the role of recursion in poststructuralism. It is suggested that much of what passes for recursion in this field is in fact not recursive all the way down. After the paradoxical meaning of radical recursion is adumbrated, topology is employed to provide some example...

In this article, it is argued that, in the making of a transdisciplinary theory of signification and communication for living, human, social and technological systems, C. S. Peirce’s semiotics is the only one that deals systematically in an evolutionary perspective with non-conscious intentional signs of the body as well as with language. Thus – in competition with the information processing pa...