Meaning of semiurgic | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to semiurgy; involving the creation of new meanings through the production of signifiers.

not-comparable

Examples

“Baudrillard (1981, 185f.) describes the transition from a metallurgic society, defined as a society of production, to a semiurgic order⟳ characterized by the proliferation of signs, simulacra, and images.”

“Baudrillard's semiurgic culture is thus infused with simulated codes and models that actually produce⟳ the reality which they purport to represent⟳ (Seidman, 1994).”

“"Semiurgic indeterminacy" means the impossibility of deciding whether the meanings of drama should be classified as signification or as reference: signification being that semiurgic or sign-working process⟳ (normally recognized as dominant in literature) in which the signifier is prior in operation to the signified, which latter itself always has the character of a sign⟳, not that of a somehow nonsignifying reality; reference being that process⟳ (normally thought of as characterizing daily experience⟳) in which the sign⟳ responds to a prior "referent," which has, at least relatively, the character of preexisting reality.”

“The dictionary entry, as a semiurgic genre, is an important form⟳ of semiotic discourse that comprehensively describes a verbal sign⟳ as a unity of the signifier, the signified, and the context/usage.”

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