Semiurgy

Quick meaning: Semiurgy is a noun meaning The production of new meanings by the creation of new signs; the expansion of the semiosphere.

Meaning

The production of new meanings by the creation of new signs; the expansion of the semiosphere.

Example Sentences

For some postmodernists, semiurgy alone is not enough; it must be radicalized by an act of adjectival one-upmanship whose effect on the concept is pejorative.

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.

In this postmodern society saturated by the dissemination of media messages and semiurgy, the apathetic masses have become 'a sullen silent majority' in which all meaning, messages and solicitations implode as they become bored and indifferent to the constant messages and attempts to slicit them to work, vote, buy, consume or register an opinion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include semiosphere, semiosis, semiopoiesis, semiology, semeiology, psychosemiotics.

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