Adrian, List, I would start with the three normative sciences of aesthetics, ethics, and logic. When semiotics becomes normative it falls within logic, so I would worry whether pure aesthetics has much to do with objective or even interpretive meaning, that is to say, semantics or pragmatics. Just a worry, I will have to think on it a while.
From where I see it, concerned primarily with applications to scientific inquiry and empirical data, the discussion of Peirce's categories over the last 20 years or so has undergone such debasement that it now borders on a style of philosophical astrology. Regards, Jon On 2/9/2016 11:33 AM, Adrian Ivakhiv wrote:
Dear all: I'm struggling with a way of tying Peirce's categories down to the 3 main elements by which we can make sense of art works: their materiality, our experience of them, and their meanings. Putting it that way suggests one ordering, but a deeper thinking through of the process (and nonlinear) nature of the categories suggests another. I'm interested in gauging what Peircians may think. I'd appreciate any comments directly on the web site below: http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2016/02/09/rethinking-the-3-categories/ Thanks! Rethinking the 3 categories February 9, 2016 byAdrian J Ivakhiv <http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/author/aivakhiv/> I've been struggling with how my triadic framework for interpreting art works relates to C. S. Peirce's categories <http://www.textlog.de/4254.html>. When I first developed my triadism (fleshed out <http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2014/12/29/emis-cinematic-materialism-a-response-to-reviews/>in/Ecologies of the Moving Image <http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/ivakhiv.shtml>/) into the non-Peircian terms of materiality, experience, and representation <http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2014/03/08/rethinking-the-three-ecologies/> --- which I did in the context of teaching a course on the environmental arts --- I loosely considered the first of these to be analogous to Peircian firstness, the second to secondness, and the third to thirdness. The point, in my teaching, was not to adhere strictly to Peirce, since my students weren't studying him, but just to have a handy triadic formula that would be useful for making sense of the eco-arts in ways that get beyond the customary overemphasis on/representation/in favor of/experience/(including affect) and/materiality/. Materiality deals with the stuff that's just there (one element); experience involves a second --- the artist, the reader or viewer, et al. (two); and representation makes sense and meaning of the stuff and its shapers and perceivers in real-world contexts (three); thus Peirce's categories loosely fit. Whether students got the Peirce or not, they could follow that. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this way of ordering the three may be un-Peircian. Or at least that there was a second way of connecting it to Peirce that was sufficiently different from the first and had important consequences. Let me break it down here. * To continue reading, go to * http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2016/02/09/rethinking-the-3-categories*/* ______________________________________________________________________________ Adrian J. Ivakhiv Professor of Environmental Studies/Environmental Thought & Culture Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources University of Vermont, Burlington VT 05405 U.S.A. Tel 802.656.0180 Fax 802.656.8015 Email: [email protected] http://vermont.academia.edu/AdrianIvakhiv http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv http://www.uvm.edu/~aivakhiv
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