Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013 6 (2)

Authors

Azarenko, Sergey A.

Contact information

Azarenko, Sergey A.: Ural Federal University named after B.N. Yeltsin, 51 Lenina, Ekaterinburg, 620083 Russia; e-mail:

Keywords

topology of communication; bodiness; placement; conjointness; signs; symbols; things; symbolic space

Abstract

This text explores the topology of communication. Formation of the human being is realized in the process of communication, that is a kind of bodily interaction. When it is realized in space, it turns in different forms of social being – certain placements and conjointnesses. Sociality arises through the configuration of its ontological constituents – bodiness, placement and conjointness. The process of reproduction of conjointness occurs during the regular bodily interaction between people through certain social practices, due to which there is generated a certain message, that attaches people to its community with certain ideas and values. Social communication promotes the forming of symbolic space. Signs and symbols, soaking up the social experience, pull together and stitch together social reality in a single entity. At the same time people have to deal with things. How do things relate to the symbolic orders? We believe that the reconciliation between these two extreme positions on the issue of the primacy of real or symbolic worlds is possible only if we stop to see in things only “objective” objects, and see social force that produces a connection; as well stop to see in signs or symbols only a “meaning”, but see them as a social force, capable to work on the connection between people.

Pages

171-179

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/9603

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