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“Ecodelic commitment as semiotic praxis”

Yogi Hale Hendlin is an Assistant Professor in the Erasmus School of Philosophy and co-editor of the journal Biosemiotics, he is also principal of the Feral Ecologies Lab. Here is the abstract for his talk:

Author of Darwin’s Pharmacy: sex, plants, and the evolution of the noösphere Richard Doyle has conceived of the notion of “ecodelia” as a more apt description of psychedelia. Rather than “mind” or “soul” manifesting (psyche-delic), ecodelics manifest what Peirce called the phaneron - the ecology of existing relations and states. This talk examines how ecodelic substances, such as sacred plants and fungi, can help us readjust our Umwelt, insofar as we can learn to use latent attributes of attending to the more-than-human world through ecodelic experience. Intending to attend to nature with ecodelic substances, as well as engaging in practices that permit recalibrating prejudgment (as is well rehearsed in the hermeneutic tradition), I argue, can provide scientific insights that combine first-person science (neurophenomenology), second-person science (participatory action research), and third-person science (the western scientific method of measurement, reproducibility, and attempted neutrality), triangulating the warm data from these three modes of being and perceiving that can extend our epistemological awareness. Such dedication can sow the soil for coordinating modes of human life that take into account our interspecies relations, valuing the biosemiotic community.

Here is the series theme description for History and Praxis:

History remains a central concern of semiotic inquiry for several reasons. It is often posed as a hypothesis that for something to be a sign and for someone to recognize it as such, there needs to be a sedimentation of effectively executed practices: a local ‘history’ of interactions that assure the preservation and transmission of knowledge. Theories of sign processes also often bring ‘history’ as a primordial component of the sign systems behind them; so that, for instance, a natural language is to be defined as a code “plus its history”. Simultaneously, semiotics is also anti-historicist: the synchronic method of Saussure is commonly thought to exclude the temporal, and the Russian Formalists disregarded everything outside the ‘text’ – particularly personal biography and context – in rebellion against the prevailing historical and material determinism of their day. But even they were concerned with the genesis of the phenomena under study, precisely in order to explain how it is that something comes to stand for something else. History entails praxis where signification structures intersect communication acts, and the concatenation of practices weaves the ‘proper’ fabric of history. But whose history? We invite participants this semester to reflect on this personal question and its inevitably political answers.

Supported by Erasmus+ project Humanities going digital, 2020-1-CZ01-KA226-HE-094363.
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