Feeling, Skill and Knowledge: Semiotics of the Subject in Environment, Culture and World

Juha Ojala, Ph.D., is professor of music performance research at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, docent of musicology at the University of Helsinki, and docent of music education research at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is an editorial board member of the Numanities series, and has contributed to the series both as an author and a reviewer. He is a former editor-in-chief of Musiikki, the journal of the Finnish musicological society, and is a board member of, e.g., the Sibelius Academy peer reviewed book series DocMus Research Publications.  He has published extensively also in semiotics, including the Routledge Handbook of Music Signification (2020) and Semiotics and Its Masters (vol. 2, DeGruyter Mouton 2023).Dr. Merja Bauters is a research professor of digital transformation and life-long learning at the School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University, Estonia, and a docent of semiotics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has held more than 30 different courses on design, design methods, semiotics and project communication. She has been involved in multiple EU and national projects on learning and technology-enhanced learning. She was the President and member of the editorial board at UMWEB International Association of Semiotics, 2004–2011, and editor of the book at Springer Nature Link Technology Supported called Active Learning: Student-Centered Approaches.Dr. Lily Díaz-Kommonen is professor of new media in the Department of Art and Media at Aalto University and distinguished visiting professor at Hunan University, School of Design. She is on the editorial board of She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation (Elsevier) and the Journal of Visual Arts Practices (Taylor & Francis). She teaches on the topic of systems of representation in art and design, and has published several books that explore the convergence of new media culture, meaning-making and creative research practices. These include Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture (Routledge 2015), Adaptation and Convergence of Media (Aalto ARTS Books 2018), and Beyond the Hybrid (RIXC 2024).

• Chapter 1. Sentient Relations: The Semiotic View on the Subject, Its Environment, Feelings, Knowledge and Skills.- Chapter 2. Feeling complementarity: Giorgio Prodi and the biosemiotic analysis ofprotosemiosis in nature.- Chapter 3. Physicality in Thinking.- Chapter 4. Multisensory Processing, Affect and Multimodal manipulation: Investigating Travel Documentaries.- Chapter 5. Why Reality is Not (Just) Discourse: Eco’s Path to Cognitive Semiotics.- Chapter 6. On the Cognitive, Projective and Evaluative Functions of Spatial Codes.- Chapter 7. Objective and Subjective Minds in Sacred-Profane Courtyards through Spatial Semiotics.- Chapter 8. Everyday Narrations of Urban Green: Values of Green Areas in Users’ Digital Georeferenced Comments.- Chapter 9. Flat Earth Cartosemiotics and Modelling.- Chapter 10. The Rumor Phenomenon in the Society of Knowledges and Itsn Ontological  Status in Semiotics.- Chapter 11. Online Memetic Engagement and Collective Memory: The Case of “Lying Flat”.- Chapter 12. Affect as Discursive Practice and Beyond.- Chapter 13. Assimilation or Annihilation? The failure of cultural translation in Mahasweta Devi’s “Pterodactyl”.- Chapter 14. Easy Signs, Accessible Signs, Perhaps More Developed Signs:Reflections on Easy Language and Translation.- Chapter 15. Storying Humans Brimming Over: To Emote, to Show, to Tell, to Write, or ChatGPT.- Chapter 16. Unable to Articulate Feelings? Alexithymia in the Context of Thure von Uexküll’s Integrated Medicine.- Chapter 17. The Naming of Pilates Exercises as an Endeavor to Create Meaning.- Chapter 18. Observing Inner Speech in Meaning-Making Through Visual Artistic Texts.- Chapter 19. Ecosemiotic Theatre: Using Forest Modelling to Activate Skills ofnFeeling and Knowing.- Chapter 20. Meaning and Context in the Electronic Dance Pop Album Trouble in Paradise by La Roux.- Chapter 21. Music and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Semiotic Deconstruction of Purulia Chhau of Bengal, India.- Chapter 22. The Role of Fascia in the Semiotics of Feeling, Skill, and Knowledge in Contact Improvisation.- Chapter 23. Music Analytical Model of the Skill of Emotional Contagion: Pride and Benevolence in Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 466.- chapter 24. Peircean Analysis of Feeling, Skill, and Knowledge as Determinants of Performer’s Semiotic Space in WAM.- Chapter 25. Embodied Polysemiotic Communication: A Cognitive Semiotic Perspective on Speech and Gestures.- Chapter 26. Making and “Coming Together”: The Life of Semiotic Forms in the Light of Aboutness and Engagement.- Chapter 27. On One’s Semiotic Affinities.- Chapter 28. Feeling and Aesthetic Knowledge According to Peirce.- Chapter 29. Emotions and Feelings in the Personal-social Construction of Knowledge.