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Abstract: The author argues that the sign is first and foremost a 'search' for its truth, which makes it fundamentally an existential quandary. Accordingly signs precede epistemology entirely, expressing meaningfully without being captured by any particular meaning. Instead they allude to infinite 'Essences', which are neither ideal nor transcendent, but which inhere invisibly inside these signs so as to create perpetually different effects and affects. In Part II, the author demonstrates how Deleuze's existential semiotics reconciles with the material ontology of Spinoza, and how signs lead to an existential engagement with the very truth of Substance
Toward a Material Concept of the Sign PDF (741kb)
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