Knowledge in Change

All knowledge is always a matter of change, as this book underlines. All knowledge links You and Me to Reality. This process of positioning cognition has become heavily influenced by conversion. Its cultural background is in this book named 'the New Plural': a worldview based on combinations of Analog, Digital, AI and Quantum understandings of reality.

The New Plural, combined with in-depth observations on the Subject in new forms of knowledge formation, forms the background theme of the book. To understand the Subject as defined in past centuries, like Kant's so-called 'split ego' or Voegelin's 'flow', are outlined together with Husserl's 'phenomenology of ego-positions'. Today, one encounters the Subject transformed into a Self with other forms that replace the traditional Subject and its position. The dynamics of the Self are therefore broader than any Selfie can picture. What the book calls 'the Self in digital culture' and for what it introduces the name Self-E, is therefore essential for a semiotic observation of all actual patterns and practices of communication.

The decentering of the Subject changed human cognition. The book introduces 'The 3-S Triad' (composed of the 'SubjectSelfSelf-E'), which has taken the place and functions of the classical Subject and its dynamics. Cognition has assumed a different position in the heart and mind of every human being. At the same time, the influence of 'The New Plural' has grown, making digital thought formation the leading pattern and foundation of today's knowledge.

That different view on human identity made knowledge as understanding and its traditional grasping disappear. All fragments of planetary life were subjected to a newly conceived and often digitally anchored fitting. That forms one of the most powerful and global challenges to the human mind. What if we conclude about climate change that our knowledge fits the problems concerned? The book's final pages outline an epistemological path through such complex zones of knowledge! But its broad and encompassing background question remains, what the concept of change really means when it is challenged to clarify the topic we name climate change.

Covers the cognition concept not only by means of analog but also by equivalent digital thought formations Explores a new concept of the Subject-in-digital thought named the Self-E" Provides basics for a semiotic analysis of cognition related to analog, digital, AI and Quantum approaches and data

Auteur
Prof. Dr. Jan M. Broekman (Em. Dean Law School, Em.Prof Law and Legal Theory, Em Prof Contemporary Philosophy, KULeuven,), studied Social Sciences and Philosophy at Leiden RU (Netherlands) and Göttingen (BRD) and published on Phenomenology, Structuralism, Dialogue Philosophy, Legal Philosophy/Theory, Legal Semiotics and the Law-Language Relationship (2019). He was Visiting Professor (apart from Europe) in Australia, S. Africa, Argentina, Chili, Columbia and various N. American Universities. He is now a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Pennsylvania University Law. He (co)authored more than thirty-five books and published over 350 scientific articles.

Résumé

"It was to my great delight that I was asked to consider these possibilities and challenges in the shadow of Jan Broekman's brilliant new work, Knowledge in Change: The Semiotics of Cognition and Conversion. The work is published as Volume 8 of the Series Law and Visual Jurisprudence, for which I serve as an Advisory Editor. ... Knowledge in Change approaches ancient and perplexing issues of the organization of human collectives within a rationalized understanding of the world ... ." (Larry Catá Backer, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 37 (3), 2024)

Contenu

Preface.- Chapter 1. Minds, Moons and Cognition.- Chapter 2. Fluidity and Flow.- Chapter 3. Post Dialectics.- Chapter 4. Flow and Firstness.- Chapter 5. Interludes - Changing Worlds Changing Words.- Chapter 6. The Non-Naïve-Natural.- Chapter 7. Plurality of the Natural.- Chapter 8. Rearguards of Subjectivity.- Chapter 9. Conversions Convert Us All.