Геологи на рандеву (Семинар
Жолковского по инфинитивной поэзии)
Человек по имени
Владимир говорил на наиболее понятном мне языке: корреляции, распределения, вероятности, когнитивная динамика распаковки текста etc. Ха! Еще бы, он же, как и я, - геолог! А темы, которыми он занимается, меня очень занимают, типа этой:
Biology, semiosis and cultural difference in Lotman's semiosphere
Iurii Lotman's essay "On the Semiоsphere" (1984) advances a model of how culture works everywhere in the world. It makes several innovative attempts to "naturalize" human culture by suggesting links and analogies to such scientific phenomena as biogeochemistry, the structure of the brain, and molecular symmetry. Although the boldness of this essay is appealing, closer scrutiny reveals that it needs to be refined because a number of the central arguments are flawed. First, the link between biological and semiotic phenomena is undermined by fundamental differences between them. Second, considered from the perspective of the emerging discipline of cultural psychology, the assumptions on which Lotman's understanding of culture and selfhood are based have a specifically Western cultural bias. There are also contradictions between several of Lotman's fundamental theoretical principles in the essay and aspects of his own scholarship.
Нет, вообще-то эта больше интересует: "Neuroscience and Literariness" (book, work in progress)
( а вот то, собственно, из-за чего я потащился на этот семинар )