Bent Sørensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 284674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bent Sørensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bent |
| FAMILY NAME | Sørensen |
| SIGNATURE | SØRENSEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Online Technologies (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0503-5061 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unesco and the definition of intangible cultural heritage – proposing some conceptual underpinnings
UNESCO’s definition of intangible cultural heritage has provided a widely recognized framework for the identification and preservation of intangible cultural heritage. It has legitimized the cultural practices of diverse communities, ensuring they are valued and protected. Despite its influence, UNESCO’s definition of intangible cultural heritage has faced academic criticism for several reasons, including being too broad, vague and even unscienti…
Zuzana Palovic, Gabriela Bereghazyova
Football statues and semiotics
Every football statue transcends mere physical representation; it stands as a public monument constructed to commemorate and honor specific subjects. The football statue involves an intricate interplay of communication factors and functions, potentially transforming into a message imbued with encyclopedic signs to serve its communicative purposes. Importantly, the football statue, as a communication phenomenon, extends beyond a simple semiotic re…
Assistive technologies and habit development
In the field of philosophy of technology, the concept of mediation is central to understanding how technology shapes human experience and behavior. Our aim in this paper is to contribute to the understanding of technological mediation, in particular how and why it is possible. Technological mediation occurs within a mediation space between the technological realm and the user realm. In the technological realm, technology regularizes events and ac…
Journals of semiotics in the world revisited – and proposing a new list anno 2023
We provide a list of semiotic journals in the world anno 2023. Our article is an expanded follow-up on Kalevi Kull and Timo Maran’s list of semiotic journals from 2013. The article finds that in 2023 there are 66 active semiotic journals in the world; hence, 11 new journals have been launched since 2013. Furthermore, there are 19 semiotic journals currently registered in the SCImago Journal Ranking database (2021 data). The article traces the dev…
A Dialogue with Leone’s Socio-cultural Semiotics of Innovation
Innovation has become emblematic of our times. Indeed, innovation is seen as a vital economic, social, and technological phenomenon, increasingly attracting research interest. However, innovation is, we believe, much more than this; innovation also concerns processes of signification, communication, and inference. Therefore, both the process and product of innovation are open to semiotic explanation and analysis. However, not many semioticians ha…
Ferdinand de Saussure in Contemporary Semiotics
Charles Peirce and firstness
Peirce’s category of Firstness is first and fundamental. Without Firstness, we can say, nothing can (later) be – no time, no space, no things, no processes, no growth, no regularities, and no thoughts – hence, nothing of which we can ever conceive. However, despite the fundamentality of Peirce’s category of Firstness, we still do not believe that it has received the attention that it rightly deserves; not by Peirce himself, nor by his commentator…
Peirce, Aristotle, metaphor – and comments to Factor
Charles Peirce provided a few, but interesting we believe, remarks about metaphor. Aristotle on the other hand developed a theory of metaphor that, to this day has been, and still is, influential (even though his theory, especially within recent years, also has been heavily criticized, e.g., by Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors we live by . Chicago: Chicago University Press). Factor, Lance R. 1996. Peirce’s definition of metaphor and…
Against boundarylessness
This article extends the critique of the boundaryless career concept by focusing on how organizational members may experience boundaries as ambiguous within contemporary career development in organizations. As an alternative to the concept of the boundaryless career, we introduce that of the liminal career. We consider a liminal career as occurring when the normal career path within an organization becomes a state of ‘betwixt and between’, wherei…
Branding and communities
The article offers a Peircean “glimpse” of the normativity of the brand community. The theoretical framework will primarily be Peirceʼs semiotics, while also adding a few insights from his thoughts on (ethical) normativity and the formal conditions of community. Firstly, I will describe the brand community as a semiotic entity based on three inter-related conditions involving “inner” and “outer” processes of branding where “inner process” is wher…
Charles S. Peirce's sign typology of 1903 and the semeiotic of universe, man, and culture
This article offers an interpretation of Peirce's pan-semeiotic view of the universe. According to Peirce, the entire universe is composed of signs or processes of signification (see for example CP 5.448 footnote). The consequence of this can be seen as twofold: processes of signification have a naturalistic foundation and the universe has an inherent semeiotic character. Peirce understands the universe as depending on the relationship between th…
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
Energy Use by Eem Neanderthals
The Neanderthals had an average body mass above that of modern humans, a more sturdy bone structure and a lower height. Food was primarily obtained by hunting big game. This chapter aims to explore the energy requirements of Neanderthals during the warm interglacial Eem period, and based on analysis to discuss the need for clothes and footwear, as well as methods for food conservation and preparation. The analysis of energy production and use pre…
Clues as information, the semiotic gap, and inferential investigative processes, or making a (very small) contribution to the new discipline, Forensic Semiotics
In this article, we try to contribute to the new discipline Forensic Semiotics – a discipline introduced by the Canadian polymath Marcel Danesi. We focus on clues as information and criminal investigative processes as inferential. These inferential (and Peircean) processes have a certain complexity consisting of the interrelation between the collateral observations of the investigator, e. g., his background knowledge concerning criminal and techn…
The meaning creation process, information, emotion, knowledge, two objects, and significance-effects
What is the relation between emotion, information, and knowledge? The aim of the paper is to focus on the meaning creation process, which involves emotion, information, and knowledge. The paper shows how the meaning creation process is an intricate relation between information and knowledge, how information is the catalyst for knowledge, and how knowledge can effect information, while emotion is the flavor of information and knowledge, respective…
The naked manager
This article explores how an allegedly ‘non-hierarchical’ and aestheticized managerial practice reconfigures power relations within a creative industry. The key problematic is ‘governmental’ in the sense suggested by Michel Foucault, in as much as the manager’s ethical self-practice—which involves expressive and ‘liberated’ bodily comportment—is used tactically to shape the space of conduct of others in the company. The study foregrounds the mana…
What brand associations are
The American polyhistor Charles Sanders Peirce stated that association is the only active force in the mind; and since any meaning of a brand is created through countless associations among the brand users, branding seems to be a cognitive vis-à-vis semeiotic process. In literature on brands the concept of association is by no means new; however, if we take a look at some of the leading and dominant brand researchers, their definitions of associa…
Almanac Songs and Singers
This article deals with the practice of the radical leftist singing group The Almanac Singers (whose members included Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, among others) from their earliest anti-capitalist and anti-war songs to their later, more liberal contributions to negotiating a unified (war) effort against Fascism. Issues addressed herein include assessing strategies in the practices of musical performers who have political agendas, investigating …
Questions toward a Peircean phenomenological description of association
According to the philosopher and scientist Charles Peirce (1839-1914) phenomenology is fundamental to all scientific inquiry and association is the only force that exists within the intellect. However, Peirce only gave his reader a hint about the relationship between phenomenology and association. In this article we will try to follow that hint and point towards a couple of main questions that can guide a Peircean phenomenological description of …
The Reception of Charles S. Peirce in Denmark
1. Setting the Scene Despite of or maybe because of much activity and numerous Danish scholars working with Peircean ideas, concepts, and methodology, there does not exist one single current concerning the reception of Peirce in Denmark. However, it seems safe to assume that the majority of Danish scholars working with Peirce – in one way or the other – initially came and to some degree still come to Peirce with an interest in his doctrine of sig…
Can We Learn from History
The development of energy use in Northern Europe is investigated, with an emphasis on the region that some 13–1400 years ago became Denmark, and by using evidence from archaeological finds, climate science and written documents from more recent periods. The role of energy technology in permitting changes in society and – together with changes in food provision technologies – in allowing sustainable living for an increasing population, is demonstr…
Consumer satisfaction and confirmation of habits of comprehension
The purpose of this article is twofold: First, within a Peircean framework it shall be demonstrated how there is a relation between the compositional structure of certain types of print advertisements and their bringing about inductive comprehension, and how the consumer can be understood as a bundle of habits. It is the assumption that advertising that supports an inductive effect particularly appeals to the cognitive tendency of habit formation…
Profaning the sacred in leadership studies
The leadership literature is full of stories of heroic self-sacrifice. Sacrificial leadership behaviour, some scholars conclude, is to be recommended. In this article we follow Keith Grint’s conceptualization of leadership as necessarily pertaining to the sacred, but—drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s notion of profanation—we highlight the need for organization scholars to profane the sacralizations embedded in leadership thinking. One example of this,…
Demography and the extinction of European Neanderthals
Energy use by Eem Neanderthals
Immaculate Defecation
This chapter opens by situating the reception of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in organization theory, but does so by conceiving this reception as a instance of ‘abstract machines’ that territorialize ‘reception’ as a function that defines and confines a field of study to a territory, here a limited number of universities in the English-speaking world. The chapter further expresses the (anti-)method of Deleuze and Guattari by trying to deploy…
The meaning creation process, information, emotion, knowledge, two objects, and significance-effects
What is the relation between emotion, information, and knowledge? The aim of the paper is to focus on the meaning creation process, which involves emotion, information, and knowledge. The paper shows how the meaning creation process is an intricate relation between information and knowledge, how information is the catalyst for knowledge, and how knowledge can effect information, while emotion is the flavor of information and knowledge, respective…
Negotiating the meaning of brands
How does a brand become meaningful, and how does certain lifestyle values become integrated into a brand so that the brand appears like a trustworthy statement? The paper investigates the ongoing negotiation processes between brand maker and brand users as a key to understand how brands become meaningful. The result of the negotiation processes is the creation of a common consent of meaning, which the brand rests upon. This implies that a brand c…
The significance-effect is a communicational effect
The paper presents the concept significance-effect outlined in a Peircean inspired communication model, named DynaCom. The significance effect is a communicational effect; the formal conditions for the release of the significanceeffect are the following: (1) Communication has to take place within a universe of discourse; (2) Utterer and interpreter must share collateral experience; and (3) The cominterpretant must occur. If these conditions are m…
Emotion and community in a semeiotic perspective
The article investigates emotions from a semeiotic perspective. The American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914) defined the emotion as a legisign, which is a lawsign (cf. Savan 1981). Since the emotion is a general sign, it can be valorized; it can be identified, communicated, and reexperienced. Based on this semeiotic-inspired definition, we investigate community caused and created by emotions or rather the effects upon minds caused by em…
Journals of semiotics in the world revisited – and proposing a new list anno 2023
We provide a list of semiotic journals in the world anno 2023. Our article is an expanded follow-up on Kalevi Kull and Timo Maran’s list of semiotic journals from 2013. The article finds that in 2023 there are 66 active semiotic journals in the world; hence, 11 new journals have been launched since 2013. Furthermore, there are 19 semiotic journals currently registered in the SCImago Journal Ranking database (2021 data). The article traces the dev…
Charles S. Peirce's sign typology of 1903 and the semeiotic of universe, man, and culture
This article offers an interpretation of Peirce's pan-semeiotic view of the universe. According to Peirce, the entire universe is composed of signs or processes of signification (see for example CP 5.448 footnote). The consequence of this can be seen as twofold: processes of signification have a naturalistic foundation and the universe has an inherent semeiotic character. Peirce understands the universe as depending on the relationship between th…
Questions toward a Peircean phenomenological description of association
According to the philosopher and scientist Charles Peirce (1839-1914) phenomenology is fundamental to all scientific inquiry and association is the only force that exists within the intellect. However, Peirce only gave his reader a hint about the relationship between phenomenology and association. In this article we will try to follow that hint and point towards a couple of main questions that can guide a Peircean phenomenological description of …
A note on cognitive branding and the value profile
The aim of this paper is to present a pragmatic inspired branding method called a value profile, within the theory of cognitive branding. The method is theoretical anchored in Charles S. Peirce's pragmatic theory and can be used to identify the core values of brands and also identify the possible consequences of how these values influence people to purchase products. Moreover, it can be used to analyze the values themselves
The pragmatic maxim of the mature Peirce regarding its special normative function
In order to gain the highest grade of clarity of his concepts, the polyhistor Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914) put forth a pragmatic maxim. Over the years, Peirce defined this maxim in many different ways. However, in the late definitions by the mature Peirce, we get a glimpse of a maxim, which has to serve the self-controlled scientific drive for growth in the concrete reasonableness; it follows that the maxim is endowed with a special normative fu…
Formal conditions for the significance-effect
The significance-effect is the right effect of meaning caused upon an interpreting mind. The right effect is understood as the right interpretation of an intended meaning caused by a sign communicated by an utterer. In the article, which is inspired by Charles S. Peirce's doctrine of signs, his semeiotics and his theory of communication, we account for the formal conditions that have to be present for the release of the significance-effect
Making the knowledge profile of C. S. Peirces concept of esthetics
The article aims to make a knowledge profile of C. S. Peirce’s (1939– 1914) concept of esthetics. Peirce placed esthetics in the normative sciences alongside ethics and logic. By placing esthetics within the normative sciences in his classification of the sciences from 1902, Peirce also defined esthetics as a theoretical science, as a science of discovery, and as a part of philosophy. We believe that the placement of esthetics in the classificati…
On the Quantification of Security
Security Implications of Alternative Defense Options for Western Europe
West European security Implications of five alternative defense scenarios arc assessed for the period 1985 to 2000. The main characteristics of each of the five scenarios are (1) current nuclear and conventional posture trends, (2) a submarine based, West European strategic nuclear force, no tactical or land-based nuclear weapons, but current conventional posture, (3) same as regards nuclear posture, but a high-technology area defense with low mo…
On the Quantification of Security
Recherches sur un graveur de l'Encyclopédie
Madeleine Pinault-Sørensen and Bent Sørensen : Defehrt, an Engraver for the Encyclopédie. Defehrt, who was employed by the "Libraires associés" as an engraver for the Encyclopédie plates, remains obscure despite the importance of contribution to the work, and we know neither his first name nor his place and date of birth. His engravings are those of a moderately talented artist, but one whose themes vary according to his commissions; he executed …
Gardens of Delight
At smile på operationsbordet—den biopolitiske entreprenør
I denne artikel søges en affirmativ læsning af Empire, idet fokus er på arbejderens potentiale som biopolitisk arbejder, hvilket munder ud i en diagrammatisering af arbejderen som en potentiel biopolitisk entreprenør. Idet forestillingen og erfaringen af krise gøres til en metodisk pointe, viser analysen nødvendigheden af at vende tilbage til selve produktionens center: ikke blot produktionen af varer, men også af værdier, affekter og sociale rel…
Making the knowledge profile of C. S. Peirces concept of esthetics
The article aims to make a knowledge profile of C. S. Peirce’s (1939– 1914) concept of esthetics. Peirce placed esthetics in the normative sciences alongside ethics and logic. By placing esthetics within the normative sciences in his classification of the sciences from 1902, Peirce also defined esthetics as a theoretical science, as a science of discovery, and as a part of philosophy. We believe that the placement of esthetics in the classificati…
Physicists in the Field of Fiction
Immaculate Defecation
This chapter opens by situating the reception of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in organization theory, but does so by conceiving this reception as a instance of ‘abstract machines’ that territorialize ‘reception’ as a function that defines and confines a field of study to a territory, here a limited number of universities in the English-speaking world. The chapter further expresses the (anti-)method of Deleuze and Guattari by trying to deploy…
Deleuze and the Social
The first book to focus on the implications of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's thinking on the social sciences and organisationThis book is concerned with the most basic notions of 'the social'. It seeks both to comprehend the 'multiplicity' of the social - in Deleuzian terms, the 'becoming' of the social itself; and it seeks to develop a new social analytical practice. Each of the newly commissioned chapters aims to show the strength of as w…
Deleuze and the Social
'Deleuze and the Social' is concerned with the most basic notions of 'the social'. It seeks both to comprehend the 'multiplicity' of the social - in Deleuzian terms, the 'becoming' of the social itself, and it seeks to develop a new social analytical practice
Negotiating the meaning of artefacts
The article investigates the question of how we ascribe meaning to artefacts (understood in its broadest sense, also including brands). The short answer is that meaning is ascribed to brands and artefact through an ongoing negotiating process between an utterer and an interpreter. This means that semeiosis is communication in its broadest sense. The negotiation process between utterer and interpreter aims at creating an interpreting habit — a com…
Metaphor, concept formation, and esthetic semeiosis in a Peircean perspective
We investigate how C. S. Peirce's theory of metaphor can provide us with an insight into concept formation. It is interesting that Peirce does not write much about the metaphor; still his suggestion that the basic mechanism of metaphor is that of parallelism is very interesting. This seems to suggest that metaphor is important to Peirce however, not as a poetical adornment but as a special branch of abduction and as a basic esthetic element that …
Formal conditions for the significance-effect
The significance-effect is the right effect of meaning caused upon an interpreting mind. The right effect is understood as the right interpretation of an intended meaning caused by a sign communicated by an utterer. In the article, which is inspired by Charles S. Peirce's doctrine of signs, his semeiotics and his theory of communication, we account for the formal conditions that have to be present for the release of the significance-effect
Emotion and community in a semeiotic perspective
The article investigates emotions from a semeiotic perspective. The American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914) defined the emotion as a legisign, which is a lawsign (cf. Savan 1981). Since the emotion is a general sign, it can be valorized; it can be identified, communicated, and reexperienced. Based on this semeiotic-inspired definition, we investigate community caused and created by emotions or rather the effects upon minds caused by em…
Seven short comments on pragmatic semeiotic and branding
The seven short comments presented here investigate branding from a pragmatic semeiotic point of view. Comment 1 touches upon the brand in an extreme scholastic realistic point of view. Comment 2 focuses on how the brand becomes represented through its replica. Comment 3 investigates if a threshold of attraction exists, a level beyond which someone becomes attracted to a given brand. Comment 4 touches upon the relation between the object and its …
The sign universe, Summum Bonum, self-control, and the normative sciences in a Peircean perspective or man ought to contribute to the growth in the concrete reasonableness
According to Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914) the universe is perfused with signs. There is an objective sign-logic at work in the universe which constitutes a growth of concrete reasonableness. However, this process is not value neutral but the Summum Bonum. Man is now cabable of a high degree of self control and can cultivate his habits of feeling, action, and thought in accordance with the ideal. A theory of these efforts of cultivation fall with…
Energy use by Eem Neanderthals
The pragmatic maxim of the mature Peirce regarding its special normative function
In order to gain the highest grade of clarity of his concepts, the polyhistor Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914) put forth a pragmatic maxim. Over the years, Peirce defined this maxim in many different ways. However, in the late definitions by the mature Peirce, we get a glimpse of a maxim, which has to serve the self-controlled scientific drive for growth in the concrete reasonableness; it follows that the maxim is endowed with a special normative fu…
A Peircean inspired typology of print advertising
Based on the hypothesis that Peircean semiotics can reveal how the construction of comprehension is at least partly a function of the structure of composition, the scope of this article is to present a new categorization of print advertising. The categorization consists of six different advertising types and is developed on the basis of an analysis of 150 quarto-, half-, and full-page advertisements from the Danish morning paper Berlingske Tidend…
The significance-effect is a communicational effect
The paper presents the concept significance-effect outlined in a Peircean inspired communication model, named DynaCom. The significance effect is a communicational effect; the formal conditions for the release of the significanceeffect are the following: (1) Communication has to take place within a universe of discourse; (2) Utterer and interpreter must share collateral experience; and (3) The cominterpretant must occur. If these conditions are m…
Cosmos and creativity
Any great new theoretical framework has an epistemological and an ontological aspect to its philosophy as well as an axiological one, and one needs to understand all three aspects in order to grasp the deep aspiration and idea of the theoretical framework. Presently, there is a widespread effort to understand C. S. Peirce's (1837–1914) pragmaticistic semeiotic, and to develop it by integrating the results of modern science and evolutionary thinki…
Demography and the extinction of European Neanderthals
Play at work
The interest in organizational play is growing, both in popular business discourse and organization studies. As the presumption that play is dysfunctional for organizations is increasingly discarded, the existing positions may be divided into two camps; one proposes ‘serious play’ as an engine for business and the other insists that work and play are largely indistinguishable in the postindustrial organization. Our field study of a design and com…
The message of print, creative advertising
Based on Peircean semiotics, this article connects a certain concept of advertising composition with instinct to demonstrate how a specific type of print advertisement prompts a creative kind of comprehension in its reception. Thus, the article proposes that creativity as a phenomenon in advertising and comprehension may be understood semiotically on the basis of composition and the Peircean guessing instinct. The overarching purpose of the artic…
Knowledge profiling the occupational therapy concept of occupation
There exist two kinds of fundamental signs and significance-effects. A normative fundamental sign and a sub-cognitive fundamental sign; a normative significance-effect and a sub-cognitive significance-effect, also called quasi-empathy. The normative fundamental sign and significance-effect appear within the scientific knowledge domain, where there is a stringent terminology. The sub-cognitive fundamental sign and significance-effect exist within …
Philosophy (37 works) · Epistemology (32 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Linguistics (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (15 works) · Semiotics (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (10 works)