Philosophy of Semiotics for a revolution of the "sense" that is desirable, possible, achievable and perfectible.

 
Philosophy of Semiotics for a revolution of the "sense" that is desirable, possible, achievable and perfectible.
As long as we have human heads turned into millions of battlefields, we need a scientific body, of a new genre, to intervene critically in the production of signs and to solve, at the root, many semiotic problems imposed on our peoples. This implies a dialectical task that, while deactivating the hegemonic sign machinery, contributes to the creation of a "new world order" in the production of meaning. We need scientific instruments capable of propelling ourselves with the vanguard of decolonized and decolonizing thought; that he has the "gift" of ubiquity and speed; that he interpellate everything and interpellate himself in the praxis that mobilizes the new social production of knowledge. Science against the dictatorship of the market and against the most hateful vices in the fields of research. Science of the general movement of the processes of significance and their metabolisms. Emancipatory semiotic science at the service of social struggles. We are in danger if we remain as an immense archipelago of disjointed semiospheres. Enough of illusionism.
Philosophy of Semiotics for a revolution of the "sense" that is desirable, possible, achievable and perfectible.

"Semiotics" here means: science for the praxis that intervenes in the processes of production, distribution and consumption of "meaning", in its causes and in its ends, in the networks of signs and the dialectical processes of meaning, decoding and transmission . That it shows the funds and backgrounds of all significance, their economic roots and the sign mechanisms that express them. That it analyze and denounce the techniques of "symbolic manipulation" and produce, critically, hypotheses, theses and mobilizations with models for a "new world order" of emancipatory semantics, syntax and dialogic against the context of economic hegemony and oppressive ideology .

It is a trap to separate the economy from ideology, infrastructure, and superstructure. Between the infrastructure and the superstructure there is a dialectical, uneven and combined relationship, characterized by complex tensions and struggles that do not allow for simple simplicity or foolish linearities in the face of the mass of interests, objectives and subjective. These tensions and contradictions -of the class struggle- also produce "signs" that are historically determined social products to "represent" interests, facts, phenomena or concrete actions. Very few objects, natural or cultural, (and their mixtures) have been, in their historical development, exempt from meanings (direct or indirect).

Perhaps the finest example of our time, where the symbolic convergence of all disputed class tensions is best exemplified, is the commodity. In all merchandise inhabits a corpus of ideological "sense" that has been converted into merchandise, even the Work has been converted into merchandise and a sign. And also the raw materials that have become merchandise have been touched by the hegemonic production of meaning that, in turn, has also become merchandise. "The devaluation of the world of men," thought Marx, "is in direct proportion to the increasing value of the world of things."

That Semiotics is not reduced to merchandise itself because we need it "emancipated" and capable of revealing the ideological plot that is the rib of merchandise under capitalism. Not a semiotics for concealment. If the ideology of the ruling class is based on indoctrinating the world under the dogma of "accumulating" a lot, at low cost and with little ethics, accumulating based on the work of others and making them believe that it is for their good; Our Semiotics should be a science of the production of emancipatory meaning, of its means and of its ways. Semiotics that dismantle the common ideological denominators (false consciousness) of the hegemonic machines for the production of meaning: religion, family, state, law, education, morals, philosophy, science, art, etc., imposed by capitalism, because they are nothing more than Special modes of system production and reproduction subject to the general law of producing surplus value for a few, increasingly few, and more powerful. "It is easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice" Einstein.

We know well that “the ideas of the ruling class are the dominant ideas in every age; or, in other words, the class that exercises the dominant material power in society is, at the same time, its dominant spiritual power ”. We know that there is no science immune to the ideologies that surround it. That there is no "immaculate" science. That is why here we prefer that you identify and declare your philosophical frameworks, this time humanists of a new gender and emancipators, as opposed to the old method of trafficking ideologies "under the table." We need an emancipatory semiotics that assumes its responsibility of direction and social force to intervene in the mode of production and in the relations of production of scientific knowledge, too, because at present the dominant mode of production of scientific knowledge has been reduced to a symbol of knowledge-merchandise.

It is a mistake to believe that to overcome capitalism it is enough to deactivate its economic springs and it is false that only by fighting the ideas of the ruling class does the structure of the capital-labor contradiction weaken. We need scientific instruments that not only serve to analyze but also serve to transform. Science incubated by the dialectical praxis of critical thought and action. Emancipatory science and emancipated from the market dictatorship. Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, trans-disciplinary science capable of nurturing objective problems and producing solutions for the short, medium and long term. Dismantle the anti-values ​​of consumerism, of individualism, of bourgeois morality based on hypocrisy, which pretends to be philanthropic, its wicked drive for surplus value and alienation.

Science, in addition, that deactivates the history, the development and the consequences of the psychological war unleashed to intoxicate the minds of the peoples with enslaving ideological devices. Fears, anti-politics, hatreds, banalities, vulgarities, lies, complexes, addictions ... Science given birth by the Philosophy of Praxis (Sánchez Vázquez). Objective explanation of the universe, its forms and processes, its internal links and connections, its reciprocal actions and possible human intervention under the necessary conditions and means. (Eli de Gortari). We need an emancipated semiotics and for emancipation, which understands that the economic base does not mechanically determine the superstructure but that they are inseparable and that matters a lot because the symbolic life of society, subjected to accelerated processes of monopolization of "means" and of speeches, has turned human heads into millions of battlefields. The Symbolic War.