Um acerto de contas entre Latour e a Semiótica?

Abstract

A settling between Latour and Semiotics? – Semiotics is a field of study frequently visited by other disciplines. One of the researchers who assumes semiotic concepts and who has found great visibility and repercussions in the human and social sciences is undoubtedly Bruno Latour, a French sociologist responsible, among other things, for analyzing scientific discourse and for developing the actor-network theory. The book Inchiesta sulle reti di senso: Bruno Latour nella svolta semiotica, written by Paolo Peverini, proposes precisely to highlight possible correlations between the semiotic theory and Latour’s work. The mission assumed by this publication is actually double: if, on the one hand, it intends to clarify how semiotic concepts initially elaborated by Algirdas Julien Greimas and his collaborators were retaken in Latour’s investigations, giving back to them their due credit, on the other hand, it also intends to open new investigative possibilities in the field of Semiotics itself, by imagining how themes discussed by Latour can impact future developments of semiotic works.