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Sign and meaning: A pragmatic intervention

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25312/j.10240  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2025-12-11

Abstract

The article concerns the problematic of the transference from the regions of sign and meaning creation into the sphere of pragmatic and agential attitude towards the world. The line of analysis leads from the processes of affective encounters, through the workings of auto-affection, towards active agency in the form of the possibility of pragmatic intervention in the social field. The theories of Gilles Deleuze and his useful interpretation of Spinozian conatus as the power to act, Susana Caló’s semio-pragmatics and Jan Slaby’s new approaches to the idea of the affective genealogy of the agency of the subject serve as support for the analysis. The article is aimed at the presentation of the, sometimes obscured, transformation of theory into practice, of how the contents initially expressed only at the level of meaning may change into an active force for doing and also, as a result, how the ‘learner of the world’ is transformed into its ‘teacher’.

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