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    Ladder, tree, web
    Sign Systems Studies 31 (2): 589-602. 2003.
    Fundamental turns in biological understanding can be interpreted as replacements of deep models that organise the biological knowledge. Three deep models distinguished here are a holistic ladder model that sees all levels of nature being complete (from Aristotle to the 18th century), a modernist tree model that emphasises progress and evolution (from Enlightenment to the recent times), and a web model that evaluates diversity (since the 20th century). The turn from the tree model to the web mode…Read more
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    Interview with Vyacheslav V. Ivanov about semiotics, the languages of the brain and history of ideas
    with Ekaterina Velmezova
    Sign Systems Studies 39 (2/4): 290-313. 2011.
    The interview with one of the founders of the Tartu–Moscow school, semiotician Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (b. 1929) from August 2010, describes V. V. Ivanov’s opinions of several scholars and their work (including Evgenij Polivanov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Andrej Kolmogorov, Nikolaj Marr etc.), his relationships with his father Vsevolod Ivanov, as well as V. V. Ivanov’s views on the past and future of semiotics, with some emphasis on neurosemiotics, zoosemiotics, semiotics of culture, cybernetics,…Read more
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    Semiosphere is the relational biosphere
    with Kaie Kotov
    In Claus Emmeche (ed.), Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the Action of Signs, Imperial College Press. pp. 179--194. 2011.
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    Habits – semioses – habits (review)
    Sign Systems Studies 44 (4): 623-629. 2016.
    Review of Consensus on Peirce’s Concept of Habit: Before and Beyond Consciousness. Donna E. West and Myrdene Anderson. Cham: Springer, 2016, 434 pp.
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    Beyond Word: On the Semiotic Mechanisms
    Biosemiotics 7 (3): 465-470. 2014.
    Juri Lotman wrote, in Russian, a book Непредсказуемые механизмы культуры — the unpredictable mechanisms of culture. Its English translator, Brian Baer, preferred to translate the title as The Unpredictable Workings of Culture . He had a reason for this — many scholars tend to refuse the term ‘mechanism’ for the phenomena of meaning-making. However, there exist quite clear cultural differences in this opinion. For instance in Russian, ‘mechanisms’ are understood so broadly that there is no questi…Read more
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    Thure von Uexküll 1908–2004
    with Jesper Hoffmeyer
    Sign Systems Studies 33 (2): 487-494. 2005.