Re-reading Les Interactions risquées. Potentialities and folds  of a semiotic classic, twenty years after

Franciscu Sedda

doi:10.23925/2763-700X.2024n8.70097

Authors

Franciscu Sedda Universidade de Cagliari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2763-700X.2024n8.70097

Keywords:

expérience, interaction, Landowski, sémiotique, sens

Abstract

The essay offers a reinterpretation of Les Interactions Risquées, twenty years after its first publication. It does so by delving into the folds of the model proposed by Eric Landowski, which has quickly become a classic in the discipline. The essay explores the intellectual and social context from which the model emerged, the implicit ideology-philosophy underpinning its construction and description, and the challenges of defining a standard processuality in the transition from one regime of interaction to another. These reflections highlight the potential embedded in the model : specifically, they aim to promote a non-reductionist interpretation of it and an exploration of the relationships between regimes that allows for a more nuanced understanding of the actual, lived dynamics of meaning production, destruction, and transformation. Finally, the essay proposes associating specific entity-concepts—objects, values, rhythms, and presences—with each regime : their constant coexistence and interaction account for the complexity of the phenomenon we call “meaning” or “sense”.

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