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semiurgy

semiurgy noun: the production of new meanings by the creation of new signs; the expansion of the semiosphere.

Noun

semiurgy (uncountable)

  1. The production of new meanings by the creation of new signs; the expansion of the semiosphere.
    • 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.1994, Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, →ISBN, page 112
    • 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...1997, Steven Best, Douglas Kellner, The Postmodern Turn, →ISBN, page 100

Origin of semiurgy

From French sémiurgie, a term coined in the 1970's in works about mass-media.

Words formed from semiurgy

Questions about semiurgy

What does semiurgy mean?
Semiurgy means the production of new meanings by the creation of new signs; the expansion of the semiosphere.
What part of speech is semiurgy?
Semiurgy is a noun.

Words near semiurgy in the dictionary

  1. semiuniforms
  2. semiupright
  3. semiurban
  4. semiurgic
  5. semiurgically
  6. semiurgy
  7. semivacancies
  8. semivacancy
  9. semivacant
  10. semivalid
  11. semivalue

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