#Semiositis • 1.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/07/10/semiositis-1/

Both types of sign-using systems, #Commerce and #Communication, are prey to the same sort of dysfunction or functional disease — it sets in when users confound signs and objects so severely as to take signs for ends instead of means.

There is a vast literature on this topic, once you think to go looking for it. And it’s a perennial theme in fable and fiction.

#Peirce #Pragmatics #Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations #Triadicity

#Semiositis • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/07/10/semiositis-1/

There is a deep and pervasive #Analogy between systems of #Commerce and systems of #Communication, turning on their near-universal use of #Symbola (images, media, proxies, signs, symbols, tokens, etc.) to stand for #Pragmata (objects, objective values, the things we really care about, or would really care about if we examined our values in practice thoroughly enough).

#Peirce #Pragmatics #Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations #Triadicity