Autocommunication and Perceptual Markers in Landscape: Japanese Examples |
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Authors: | Kati Lindström |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Semiotics, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tiigi 78, Tartu, 50410, Estonia |
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Abstract: | Juri Lotman distinguishes between two main types of communication. In addition to the classical I-YOU communication, he speaks
about I-I communication, where both the addresser and the addressee are one and the same person. Contrary to how it sounds,
autocommunication is not self-sufficient musing inside one’s self, it is remodelling oneself through a code from an entity
outside oneself, be it animate or inanimate. According to Lotman, it is often the rhythmical phenomena like poetry, the rhythm
of waves, etc. that lend themselves for the act of autocommunication as external codes. After having received the message
one is not identical to the original oneself anymore. Perceptual markers of landscape—specific rhythms, ephemera, the rhythm
of human everyday activities, bodily movement—can be considered as a secondary code leading to autocommunication in the person
who contemplates the landscape. Looking at the landscape—which also implies the rhythmical movement of the eyes—one uses it
as a code to reconstitute oneself. A person who has confronted a landscape does not leave it as the same person. The present
article poses a definition of autocommunication in landscapes and discusses the way in which other sensorial information apart
from the visual—smell, movement, rhythms etc—are used culturally to reinforce autocommunication with oneself. It can be said
that several institutionalised religious and cultural practices expect the subject to reconstitute him- or herself mainly
through the bodily landscape experience. |
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