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为感谢各位对“当代符号学中的前沿议题”讲座的热切关注，经Massimo Leone教授同意开放线上会议通道，相关信息如下。
国际传播研究平台系列讲座
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Frontier Issues in Contemporary Semiotics
当代符号学中的前沿议题
主讲老师
Massimo Leone
Massimo Leone是意大利都灵大学哲学与教育科学系传播哲学、文化符号学和视觉符号学教授，同时也是上海大学中文系符号学兼职教授，剑桥大学数字人文研究中心理事，意大利都灵大学跨学科交流研究中心宗教研究所所长，委内瑞拉加拉加斯大学的兼职教授。他曾是五大洲多所大学的客座教授，独立撰写了15本书，编辑了60多部合集，并发表了600多篇有关符号学、宗教研究和视觉研究的文章。他曾获得2018年ERC整合者资助项目和2022年ERC概念验证资助项目，是意大利都灵大学传播跨学科研究中心的符号学期刊《Lexia》的主编，De Gruyter出版社《Semiotica》的联合主编，以及《Lexia》（罗马：Aracne出版社）、《宗教符号学》（柏林和波士顿：Walter de Gruyter出版社）和《Advances in Face Studies》（伦敦和纽约：Routledge出版社）等图书系列的联合主编。
讲座安排
01
The Semiotics of Hybrid Meaning
2024.3.14 周四 16:00 – 18:00
主持人：曾军（上海大学文学院教授）
本讲探讨人类与人工智能之间相互作用中出现的交织的表达方式。
02
The Semiotics of Quantum Meaning
2024.3.15 周五 9:00 – 11:00
主持人：周海天（上海大学文学院副教授）
本讲提出一种开创性的指示分析，将传统的语言学和符号学框架与量子理论的视角相交融。
03
The Semiotics of Algorithmic Meaning
2024.3.18 周一 9:00 – 11:00
主持人：段似膺（上海大学文学院讲师）
本讲将批评性分析构建算法图像“新灵韵”的符号学途径，这种灵韵并不主要源自它们所代表的内容，也不仅仅源自于它们的呈现方式，而是源自于围绕这些图像产生的极具生产力的神秘氛围。
04
The Semiotics of Undecidable Meaning
2024.3.19 周二 9:00 – 11:00
主持人：聂世昌（上海大学文学院讲师）
本讲探讨数字模拟的复杂动态，以及在技术进步让机器能够高度准确地模仿人类行为的时代，这对我们理解人性有何影响。
讲座地点
主讲人：
Massimo Leone
主办方：
上海大学批评理论研究中心
时间与会议号：
2024年3月14日16:00~18:00
#腾讯会议：853-857-983
2024年3月15/18/19日09:00~11:00
#腾讯会议：735-5008-5843
内容概要
Frontier Issues in Contemporary Semiotics
Massimo LEONE, University of Turin
Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00 – 18:00 PM
1. The Semiotics of Hybrid Meaning.
This lecture reflects on the new ways of entangledenunciations emerging in the interaction between humans and AI. It does so byexploiting the idea of the IA as a new biological species and the metaphor ofdifferent degrees of biosemiotic entanglements. First, relying on the biologyand the biosemiotics of hybrids, it introduces the novel concept of “hybridenunciation”, emerging at the intersection of semiotics and the evolvingrelationship between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). It begins by tracingthe historical trajectory of “hybridity” from its roots in the Latin term“hybrida”, traditionally referring to offspring from dissimilar animal parents,symbolizing unnatural and arrogant unions. The journey of this term from itsgenealogical origins to its metaphorical extensions in language and culture isexplored, highlighting the evolution of the term to describe linguistic andcultural phenomena resulting from the blending of disparate elements. Thepresentation underscores the inherent hybrid nature of the human species — asrevealed by genetic studies like the Neanderthal Genome Project — and examinesthe role of human activities in creating biological hybrids. This explorationof hybridity in nature and culture sets the stage for introducing the conceptof “cyborg enunciation”, which conceptualizes the communicative processesarising from the integration of human cognitive abilities with AI. It extendsthe boundaries of traditional hybridity into the realm of semiotics, where thefusion of human intellect with algorithmic processes creates new forms ofexpression and interpretation. This concept challenges and expands traditionalnotions of linguistic and cultural expression, considering the uniquecapabilities and interactions resulting from the human-AI synthesis. Therelevance of semiotics in understanding this new form of enunciation ishighlighted through the contributions of seminal thinkers like Michael Bakhtin,Bruno Latour, Homi Bhabha, Néstor García Canclini, and Stuart Hall. Their insightsinto cultural hybridity and post-colonial identity provide a framework forgrasping the complexities of cyborg enunciation. The presentation posits“cyborg hybridity” as a significant development in the field of artificialintelligence, signifying a present reality where human intellect merges withAI. This new form of hybridity necessitates a reevaluation of hybrid existenceprinciples and opens new avenues for semiotic research and theory, offering anoriginal lens to view the evolving dynamics of human communication and identityin the age of AI toward the formation of new enunciations. The last step of thelecture takes as a point of departure the biological and the (still scant)biosemiotic literature about chimeric cells, and explores the idea that AIenunciations contribute to the reshaping of the human species, embedded as anew constituent in its ways of meaning.
Friday 15 March 2024, 9:00 – 11:00 AM
The Semiotics of Quantum Meaning.
The lecture presents a pioneering analysis of deixis,intersecting traditional linguistic and semiotic frameworks with quantumtheoretical perspectives. The work commences by redefining deixis as a'floating anchor’, symbolizing its dynamic and context-sensitive essence. Thisreconceptualization serves as a foundation for challenging the dichotomousapproach prevalent in deixis studies, favoring a nuanced, spectrum-based model.The lecture critiques the conventional reliance on Cartesian space for deicticanalysis, advocating for a paradigm shift towards non-linear andmulti-dimensional models that more accurately reflect the complexity of deicticmeanings. The discussion then transitions to an exploration of MichaelSilverstein’s indexing registers, emphasizing their pivotal role ininterpreting and navigating intricate social contexts. Extending the scope ofanalysis beyond linguistic boundaries, the lecture probes into the applicationof deixis in visual, musical, and stylistic domains. This broader view underscoresthe pivotal role of context in shaping meaning across diverse communicativeforms. In a groundbreaking foray, the lecture aligns the intricacies of deixiswith principles of quantum information theory. Employing concepts such as theBloch sphere and Hopf fibration, it offers innovative conceptual and visualrepresentations for the complex interactions within cultural interpretation andsemiotics. The lecture culminates by contemplating the transformative potentialof quantum computing in advancing our comprehension of human communication andcultural expression, thereby heralding a new frontier in the interdisciplinarydomain of quantum humanities.
Monday 18 March 2024, 9:00 – 11:00 AM
The Semiotics of Algorithmic Meaning.
The article critically analyzes the semiotic pathwaysthrough which the new aura of algorithmic images is constructed, an aura whichstems not so much from what they represent nor from how it is represented butfrom the halo of mystery surrounding the very productive genesis of suchimages. Even their creators, from their super-technological laboratories, claimthat they cannot fully grasp their emergence from artificial intelligence.Analyzing these statements in depth, as well as the attempts that these samelaboratories conduct to 'unravel’ the mystery of the algorithmic images thatthey themselves fabricate and disseminate, however, one is seized with thesuspicion that this mystery and aura are not due to intrinsic technical causes,but rather to the particular socio-rhetorical context in which digital andtechnological frontier knowledge is produced today, especially in relation toartificial intelligence. The “black box” so often evoked to translate theinexplicability of artificial intelligence visual products might therefore benothing more than a rhetorical device to protect and enhance the real blackbox, that of productive and industrial secrecy. In this whole process ofalgorithmic construction of the aura, then, the rhetoric of the unknowable imageintercepts and highjacks a very long-standing trend in human cultures, in whichimages are precisely delegated the semiotic task of circulating the sense of amysterious, ungraspable, and unfathomable meaning.
Tuesday 19 March 2024, 9:00 – 11:00 AM
The Semiotics of Undecidable Meaning.
The lecture explores the intricate dynamics of digitalimpersonation and its implications for our understanding of personhood in anage where technological advancements enable machines to closely emulate humanbehavior. It ambitiously spans across various domains — nature, society, andtechnology — to investigate mimicry and its multifaceted expressions, frombiological imitation to the complexities of human impersonation and the digitalfrontiers of AI, deepfakes, and holograms. Through a transdisciplinary lensincorporating philosophy, psychology, theatre, AI studies, and law, the lectureaims at dissecting the evolving landscape of impersonation, challengingtraditional notions of identity, authenticity, and the very essence of what itmeans to be human in a digitally augmented world.
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