International Assotiation for Semiotic of Spase and Time, Switzerland, pellegri@bluewin.ch
This text examines the correlation between heterotopy and meaning of place from the standpoint of the semiotics of space. Any organism exchanges information with its environment, transports, positions and orients its behaviour in relation to the source of energy and information. To ensure coherence of its actions, the organism must transform sensory energy into information. In space, exteriorization of being and interiorization of the organism’s actions are the two fundamental processes that constitute the sense of place. The sequence of forms in a spatial composition is based on a continuous extension to infinity. Space presupposes extension. The form operates discontinuities in the extension, preserves lines of substance to mark the limits of space. The one thing that it does not preserve is the mode of operation of the form. Spatial composition connects successive inclusions and exclusions; the genesis of places generates heterotopies as well as homeotopies.
space; semiotics; meaning of place; heterotopy; homeotopy; diatopy
Download textFor citing: Pellegrino P. (2020). The semiotics of space: heterotopy and the meaning of place. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 1 (41): Heterotopy and semiotics of cultural landscape, pp. 11-28. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2020.01.01