Iuri Lotman: The analysis of Culture from Complexity and Transdisciplinarity

ABSTRACT We have several objectives in this article. Firstly, we return to the category of semiosphere due to its dialectical and polysemic character, but we also introduce some reflections in order to analyze more complex cultural productions. In this same sense, the category of internal and external semiotic border allows us to present the cultural, intercultural, and transcultural translation problems that are articulated with the dynamic changes of every culture. Secondly, we examine the category of culture and articulate it with the no-culture, with the anti-culture, which would lead to propose three types of semiosphere: cultural semiosphere, noncultural semiosphere, and anti-cultural semiosphere, which introduce controversial aspects that must be considered. Thirdly, we study Iuri Lotman’s latest approaches on the unpredictable in cultural processes, assuming assumptions of complexity and transdisciplinarity that are present in all his work.

摘要
本文旨在达成多重研究目标。其一，我们回归符号域（semiosphere）范畴——该范畴兼具辩证性与多义性特征，同时我们亦引入若干反思性论述，以期对更为复杂的文化产物展开深入分析。借助内外符号边界（internal and external semiotic border）范畴，我们可阐释与各类文化动态变迁相关联的文化、跨文化（intercultural）及超文化（transcultural）翻译议题。其二，我们对文化范畴展开考察，并将其与非文化、反文化范畴进行关联阐释，由此提出三类符号域：文化符号域、非文化符号域与反文化符号域，这些范畴均蕴含需予以审慎考量的争议性面向。其三，我们研习尤里·洛特曼（Iuri Lotman）关于文化进程中不可预测性的最新研究路径，依托贯穿其全部学术著作的复杂性与跨学科研究假设展开论述。