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Edusemiotics is a novel direction in educational theory. New materialism is a novel direction in cultural theory. Both areas of research, while “located” in humanities, pay close attention to contemporary developments in natural sciences such as physics and biology. Both are strongly anti-dualist. However, while new materialism seems to revert to the philosophy of monism, edusemiotics emphasizes the irreducibly triadicstructure of signs that ensures their dynamics and enables their action and evolution. New materialism tends to draw from the continental tradition in philosophy (notably Deleuze), while sources feeding into the latest developments in edusemiotics are plenty, including American pragmatism. Still, both directions have much in common and seem to exit in parallel – their appearance in their respective fields (cultural studies...
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Semetsky, I. (2017). Edusemiotics, Subjectivity, and New Materialism. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_512
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