Abstract
Kalevi Kull’s biosemiotic aesthetics has apparent potential for ecosemiotics. This potentiality will be elaborated through the concepts of collateral beauty and adjacent semiosis. If diverse organisms aim towards better fitting, perfection, and beauty, than aesthetics arises in ecosystems occasionally yet recurrently. Perceiving such collateral beauty becomes an effective means to create new semiotic connections and associations, thereby contributing to the integrity and coherence of the semiotic system. Collateral beauty may help humans become better connected with the broader ecosemiosphere, or to perceive the meaning and the value of ecological systems.
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The research for this paper was supported by the Estonian Research Council (grants PRG1504 and PRG314).
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Maran, T. Collateral Beauty, Adjacent Semiosis. Biosemiotics 15, 37–40 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-022-09480-0
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