Further Tasks

Abstract

This chapter adds three revisions needed to move forward in productive response to the legitimate post-humanist critique of any culturalist hubris. Thesis 3 states that besides words and writing, meanings emerge through images, music and other modes of communication that need be taken seriously. Thesis 4 says that besides cognitive thoughts and images, meanings also involve an affective dimension, deeply seated in bodies experiencing the text. Thesis 5 underlines that culture is constituted at the dynamic interface of meaning and materiality, which far from fixed and autonomous realms are engaged in an open process of mutual interaction. Signifying practice is truly a making of meaning-in-process. Two complementary spatial models summarise the revised hermeneutic concept of culture.