Towards a planetary semiotics

Abstract

There exists a universal ecology-based stratification of levels of activity and meaning-making in human societies, a stratifying architecture that determines existing levels of social experience, types of sign functions and semantic functions in language, and finally the mental principles of human subjectivity. The planetary ecology of civili-zation is therefore constitutive of human semiotics. The following is a short outline of a theory of meaning based on these observations

Keywords

• global ecology
• dynamics of power
• meaning types
• semiotics of subjectivity
• semiotics of money