THE ORCHID AND THE TURTLE: Essay on Synecdoche Intersemiosis or the Sense, Sensation, and Translatability between Science, Art, and Ecology

The first two chapters of this book focus on exploring the mechanisms and the most important characteristics of synecdochic intersemiotics as a knowledge-generating process in relation to a reality that is not only cognitive and linguistic but also intensely cultural and social. The first two chapters of this book focus on exploring the mechanisms and most important characteristics of synecdochic intersemiotics as a knowledge-generating process in relation to a reality that is not only cognitive and linguistic but also intensely cultural and social.
Chapter three establishes the foundations of polar semiotics, which has been little studied until now, and sheds light on the connection between the functioning of memory in different areas of cognition, and the translatability processes that are transversal to it, and which are common to both science and art. The fourth and final chapter extends this perspective towards the phenomenology of capital and political power, in relation to the cultures and human societies of the 21st century.
Despite the complexity of the subject, this book unfolds in a prose that leans towards literary essay and even philosophical poetry, where the reader finds references to Charles S. Peirce, Lev Vygotsky, and Noam Chomsky, as well as to Sappho of Lesbos, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Pascal Quignard, and Almudena Hernando. A common thread throughout the text, however, is an attempt to harmonize with this dialogue the knowledge of the indigenous peoples of Mexico.