About this episode
This episode explores the intersection of humanism and posthumanism through the lens of linguistics and communication.
Join me on a journey from humanism to posthumanism with a focus on how we understand language, more-than-human communication, semiosis and information theory. We discuss Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think, specifically his ideas about the Earth’s open and emergent semiotic system, of which human meaning-making is a subset. We explore the idea of human language … Continue reading Episode 114 The linguistics of loss
Topics covered
- linguistics
- humanism
- posthumanism
- communication
- semiosis
Keywords
- language
- more-than-human communication
- information theory
- Eduardo Kohn
- How Forests Think
- Earth's semiotic system
- human meaning-making
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: How Forests Think
Places: Earth
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