ONLINE FIRST
published on April 25, 2025
Ivo A. Ibri
https://doi.org/10.5840/ajs202542391
Rescuing Forgotten Signs
In Search of What Heralds Rebirth and Renewal
Considering the idea of forgetting as a setting aside and not as some form of mnemonic lapse, the question arises as to what signs the harsh otherness of reality conditions us to forget? It is a type of forgetting that casts to the wayside what could, in fact, nourish all that is proposed as new, all that possibly stems from a rebirth of what has indeed not even been born. I will explore in this text precisely how forgetting is imposed on us by the choices we make¡ªour existential attitude¡ªnamely that which, from the universe of possibly experienceable phenomena, selects only what matters for the t¨¦los that galvanizes our interests, our objects of desire. Inspired by Charles S. Peirce¡¯s philosophy, especially his categories combined with his Semiotics and Pragmatism, I will suggest that we think about the perceptual role given by the very nature of language and how language outlines our view of the world, revealing itself as a type of residue, a part of which, ultimately, resides within what could potentially contain an unlimited genesis of creation and invention.