Wendy Wheeler, PhD. (1994) University of Sussex, is Professor Emeritus at London Metropolitan University. She has lectured at several universities, and is the author of many books and articles on biosemiotics, nature and culture. Her latest book Expecting the Earth: Life/Culture/Biosemiotics was published by Lawrence & Wishart in 2016.
In Other Tongues: Ecologies of Meaning and Loss
I regret the lazy oversimplifications of our time. As our world becomes ever fuller withaccessible information, ever more porous, ever more pressing with demands for our attention, so our subtler semiotic capacities appear to stall before the task. Our attempts at interpretation and meaning-making are overwhelmed: more information means less meaning.
August 31, 2017