Meaning of semiurgy | Babel Free

Definitions

The production of new meanings by the creation of new signs; the expansion of the semiosphere.

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Examples

“It is the same: any shock⟳, any blow⟳, any impact, all the metallurgy of the accident can be read⟳ in the semiurgy of the body — neither an anatomy nor a physiology, but a semiurgy of contusions, scars, mutilations, wounds that are so many new sexual organs opened in the body.”

“In Baudrillard's scheme, the referential world of the commodity — needs, use⟳ value, and labor — was only a historical passageway for a radical semiurgy that aims at the liquidation of society and the real, their displacement through structural codes and signs. Radical semiurgy -- that is, the proliferation and dissemination of signs, -- constitutes a new source of abstract power that lies not in the commodity nor in the organization of the economy but in the autonomous development of the sign⟳, whose genealogy Baudrillard traced in his studies of simulations.”

“For some postmodernists, semiurgy alone is not enough; it must be radicalized by an act of adjectival one-upmanship whose effect on the concept is pejorative.”

“In this postmodern society saturated by the dissemination of media messages and semiurgy, the apathetic masses have⟳ become⟳ 'a sullen silent majority' in which all meaning, messages and solicitations implode as they become⟳ bored and indifferent to the constant messages and attempts to slicit them to work⟳, vote⟳, buy⟳, consume⟳ or register⟳ an opinion.”

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