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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