Existences collectives : perspectives sémiotiques sur la sociabilité animale et humaine

The international symposium Existences collectives : perspectives sémiotiques sur la sociabilité animale et humaine explores the significant relationships between humanity, animality and technicality in terms of collective organization.

This symposium aims at deploying bridges between various disciplines using a semiotic perspective. Thus, the proposals come from very different fields - life sciences, SHS, natural sciences, literature, aesthetics, arts, computer science - in an effort to clarify the meanings given and to be given to our collective existence as living beings.

At a time when forms of human sociability have an irreversible impact on the environment, we want to put interspecies interactions into dialogue: what are the new metaphors for understanding and giving shape to hybrid social configurations and common territories (scum, network , collective intelligence), what are the catachresis to come to name these new conceptions of our common existences, how are our narrative frameworks toubled by the paradigm shift we are experiencing? What can semiotics bring to our thinking about collective existences, but also to certain technological developments, such as recent innovations in affective computing, cybernetics and deep learning? How can these different perspectives inform the political invention of being-together transformed within human communities?

October 20-21, 2022
Université Paris 8 and Campus Condorcet

Program and information:

https://existencesco.sciencesconf.org/