2. A First-Hand Contact: Form and Content
2.1. Elimination of Semiotics in CETI
If we choose a means of communication out of signs, symbols and indices are no longer relevant, as to decipher them, a recipient should have conventional knowledge about the referent of the sign and knowledge of a situation prior to the communication event. It would be too impudent to presuppose aliens to have such knowledge. Still, the iconic signs remain. ‘Icons, which bear physical resemblances to what they represent, will be superior to symbols, which are purely arbitrary’ (Vakoch 697). Iconic signs were a part of some famous messages to extraterrestrials (e. g. the Voyager Golden Records and the Pioneer plaques). According to Charles William Morris, the icon …show more content…
The actors perform a scene, in which they try to find a solution for a problem people may face in everyday life – gender and racial inequality, drug addiction, domestic violence, political instability etc. A spectator becomes a spect-actor: the audience may interrupt the performance and intervene by replacing actors and replaying a scene, trying a better solution. Augusto Boal believed such a theatre to promote liberation and engage people in social and political change. Acting in the world simultaneously with observing yourself in action demolishes a despotism of the traditional theatre as well as social …show more content…
If the circumstances of the encounter allow us to perceive our interlocutor(s) somehow (these circumstances are an ability to think abstractly, memory, self-awareness, intraspecific communication, ability to perceive a communicator and his/her message in space-time, response-ability), then it gets a bit technical to reveal a right key for communication to unlock two systems. As for Solaris problem, Kris Kelvin seems to approach this key eventually while playing with the ocean in the back pages of the novel. The key already-potentially exists – as every written and unwritten book exists in the Library of Babel, constructed by Jorge Luis Borges. Possibility is
2.1. Elimination of Semiotics in CETI
If we choose a means of communication out of signs, symbols and indices are no longer relevant, as to decipher them, a recipient should have conventional knowledge about the referent of the sign and knowledge of a situation prior to the communication event. It would be too impudent to presuppose aliens to have such knowledge. Still, the iconic signs remain. ‘Icons, which bear physical resemblances to what they represent, will be superior to symbols, which are purely arbitrary’ (Vakoch 697). Iconic signs were a part of some famous messages to extraterrestrials (e. g. the Voyager Golden Records and the Pioneer plaques). According to Charles William Morris, the icon …show more content…
The actors perform a scene, in which they try to find a solution for a problem people may face in everyday life – gender and racial inequality, drug addiction, domestic violence, political instability etc. A spectator becomes a spect-actor: the audience may interrupt the performance and intervene by replacing actors and replaying a scene, trying a better solution. Augusto Boal believed such a theatre to promote liberation and engage people in social and political change. Acting in the world simultaneously with observing yourself in action demolishes a despotism of the traditional theatre as well as social …show more content…
If the circumstances of the encounter allow us to perceive our interlocutor(s) somehow (these circumstances are an ability to think abstractly, memory, self-awareness, intraspecific communication, ability to perceive a communicator and his/her message in space-time, response-ability), then it gets a bit technical to reveal a right key for communication to unlock two systems. As for Solaris problem, Kris Kelvin seems to approach this key eventually while playing with the ocean in the back pages of the novel. The key already-potentially exists – as every written and unwritten book exists in the Library of Babel, constructed by Jorge Luis Borges. Possibility is