{"id":10148,"date":"2026-02-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:49:13","slug":"looking-at-peeter-torops-article-2017-semiotics-of-cultural-history-part-2-of-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Peeter Torop’s Article (2017) “Semiotics of Cultural History”\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

0967 Since the word, “chronotope” and “isotope” both contain “tope”, I use the latter as an analogy for the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The analogy is admittedly, odd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0968 Here is a comparison of the two entangled things.  For chemistry, an isotopic thing<\/em> (the nucleus, at least) gets entangled in the matter of radioactive instability<\/em>.  For the medieval scholastics, a mind-independent being<\/em> ends up entangled with mind-dependent matter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0969 Now, how do these two confoundings resolve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can resolve in favor of the originating matter, resulting in a stable isotope<\/em> for chemistry<\/em> and an objective mind-independent being<\/em> for scholastic discourse<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can resolve in favor of the entangled matter, resulting in a new element produced by radioactive decay<\/em> and a subjective mind-dependent being,<\/em> apparently useless for scholastic discourse.  Radioactivity and opinion?  Yeah, both may be damaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0970 Here is a picture of the example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0971 Confoundings are dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever I see one, I say, “Watch out!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0972 The adjusted title of the article under examination is “Semiotics of Cultural History: An Inquiry into the Chronotope”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I step onto a path of analogy and example,<\/em> by offering my first comparison<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0973 What is “cultural history”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a historical thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the literary construction of the thing<\/em> suggests that history may be the form and culture may serve as matter, the realness of the historical thing<\/em> runs in the opposite direction.  History pours into culture, like bronze pours into an empty plaster shell in the lost wax technique.  Culture, as form, recalls history, as matter.  So, “history” should serve as the matter and “culture” should label the form of “the historical thing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0974 At this point, the historical thing<\/em> might be regarded by a scientist as a noumenon<\/em> that exhibits a variety of phenomena<\/em> that can be observed and measured.  Then, the observations and measurements<\/em> may be modeled according to ways that material arrangements substantiate human conditions,<\/em> using the disciplinary languages of Keynesianism or Marxism or whatever<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0975 The next step<\/em> on the path of analogy and example, introduces semiotics<\/em> as entangled matter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, the confounding resolves in favor of the entangled matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0976 So, let me walk through this figure<\/em> using the example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History<\/em> corresponds to mind-independence as matter<\/em>.  I suppose this implies that history may be regarded as a sequence of real events<\/em>.  So, these events substantiate a real form<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culture<\/em> corresponds to “ens reale<\/em>” as form.  Ens reale<\/em> transliterates into real being<\/em>.  Doesn’t everyone regard culture as a real being?<\/em>  Well, I suppose that those who don’t<\/em> are either sociopaths or insane or both.  If culture is not a real being,<\/em>then what is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Semiotics,<\/em> or sign-systems studies,<\/em> is analogous to mind-dependent matter<\/em> that gets entangled with the form of the historical thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0977 The resolution in favor of the entanglement acts<\/em> like radioactive decay that changes the elemental thing<\/em> and like {mind-dependent matter [substantiating] ens rationis}<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0978 In other words, as soon as semiotics<\/em> gets entangled with the historical thing,<\/em> the historical thing<\/em> is no longer the same<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0979 Ah, I may now cross out the historical thing<\/em> and insert Torop’s term, “cultural history”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

0967 Since the word, “chronotope” and “isotope” both contain “tope”, I use the latter as an analogy for the former. The analogy is admittedly, odd. 0968 Here is a comparison of the two entangled things.  For chemistry, an isotopic thing (the nucleus, at least) gets entangled in the matter of radioactive instability.  For the medieval scholastics, a mind-independent being ends up entangled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-review"],"yoast_head":"\nLooking at Peeter Torop's Article (2017) "Semiotics of Cultural History"\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11) - An Archaeology of the Fall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking at Peeter Torop's Article (2017) "Semiotics of Cultural History"\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11) - An Archaeology of the Fall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"0967 Since the word, “chronotope” and “isotope” both contain “tope”, I use the latter as an analogy for the former. The analogy is admittedly, odd. 0968 Here is a comparison of the two entangled things.  For chemistry, an isotopic thing (the nucleus, at least) gets entangled in the matter of radioactive instability.  For the medieval scholastics, a mind-independent being ends up entangled […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"An Archaeology of the Fall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-18T08:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ad695f570ebd1b2a6f85c4ac5badcd04\"},\"headline\":\"Looking at Peeter Torop’s Article (2017) “Semiotics of Cultural History”\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11)\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-18T08:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148\"},\"wordCount\":614,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Article Review\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148\",\"name\":\"Looking at Peeter Torop's Article (2017) \\\"Semiotics of Cultural History\\\"\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11) - An Archaeology of the Fall\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-18T08:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ad695f570ebd1b2a6f85c4ac5badcd04\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Looking at Peeter Torop’s Article (2017) “Semiotics of Cultural History”\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"An Archaeology of the Fall\",\"description\":\"A Horror Story by Razie Mah\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ad695f570ebd1b2a6f85c4ac5badcd04\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13f66383028a15bc9f1f6f30c43ce372a5a073cb8ec7f9069fa5158a183efe4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13f66383028a15bc9f1f6f30c43ce372a5a073cb8ec7f9069fa5158a183efe4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Looking at Peeter Torop's Article (2017) \"Semiotics of Cultural History\"\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11) - An Archaeology of the Fall","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Looking at Peeter Torop's Article (2017) \"Semiotics of Cultural History\"\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11) - An Archaeology of the Fall","og_description":"0967 Since the word, “chronotope” and “isotope” both contain “tope”, I use the latter as an analogy for the former. The analogy is admittedly, odd. 0968 Here is a comparison of the two entangled things.  For chemistry, an isotopic thing (the nucleus, at least) gets entangled in the matter of radioactive instability.  For the medieval scholastics, a mind-independent being ends up entangled […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148","og_site_name":"An Archaeology of the Fall","article_published_time":"2026-02-18T08:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ad695f570ebd1b2a6f85c4ac5badcd04"},"headline":"Looking at Peeter Torop’s Article (2017) “Semiotics of Cultural History”\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11)","datePublished":"2026-02-18T08:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148"},"wordCount":614,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png","articleSection":["Article Review"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148","url":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148","name":"Looking at Peeter Torop's Article (2017) \"Semiotics of Cultural History\"\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11) - An Archaeology of the Fall","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png","datePublished":"2026-02-18T08:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ad695f570ebd1b2a6f85c4ac5badcd04"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide04-5.png"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10148#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Looking at Peeter Torop’s Article (2017) “Semiotics of Cultural History”\u00a0\u00a0(Part 2 of 11)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/","name":"An Archaeology of the Fall","description":"A Horror Story by Razie Mah","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ad695f570ebd1b2a6f85c4ac5badcd04","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13f66383028a15bc9f1f6f30c43ce372a5a073cb8ec7f9069fa5158a183efe4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/13f66383028a15bc9f1f6f30c43ce372a5a073cb8ec7f9069fa5158a183efe4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10162,"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions\/10162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}