{"id":9934,"date":"2025-12-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:34:25","slug":"looking-at-igor-pilshchikov-and-mikhail-trunins-article-2016-the-tartu-moscow-school-of-semiotics-part-21-of-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9934","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Igor Pilshchikov and Mikhail Trunin&#8217;s Article (2016) &#8220;The Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics&#8221; (Part 21 of 27)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0269 In section seven (7), the authors surf into the fourth paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide62.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide62.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide62.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide62-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0270 The material arrangements have changed.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, what about the immaterial arrangements?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who still believes that {material arrangements [substantiate] human conditions}?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Soviet Empire fails, Slavic civilization experiences the trauma of&#8230; what?&#8230; a rebirth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0271 For seventy years, from 1918 to 1989, the Slavic culture gestates in the womb of Marxist ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that so different than the hiatus of Mongol rule (1240-1481)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The civilizational rebirth of the all the Slavic nations<\/em>&nbsp;inaugurates&nbsp;<em>the fourth battle among the Enlightenment gods<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Razie Mah&#8217;s three-part e-book,&nbsp;<em>Original Sin and the Post-Truth Condition<\/em>&nbsp;(available at smashwords and other e-book venues) tells the tale, from a western point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0272 The current war may be titled, &#8220;Empirio-Normative Domination of Subject Populations&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;The war entails controlling&nbsp;<em>what people say<\/em>&nbsp;through&nbsp;<em>the use of psychometric expertise<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The USA becomes the USSA: the&nbsp;<em>Umbrella of Sycophantic States in America<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;A victor is not yet apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On one hand, subject populations cannot ideate&nbsp;<em>what victory means<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, the Relativist One<sub>3c<\/sub>&nbsp;has already victoriously implemented&nbsp;<em>a wide-range of interventions<sub>2c<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>Also, subject populations have been successfully instructed&nbsp;<em>how to talk about these events<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0273 To summarize, the current Zeitgeist brings science (as&nbsp;<em>social interaction<sub>2bf<\/sub><\/em>) beyond science (as&nbsp;<em>what we currently think that the spoken-word means<sub>2bm<\/sub><\/em>).&nbsp;&nbsp;Communist and capitalist &#8220;models&#8221; are not mechanical or mathematical formulations.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are not shorn of formal and final causation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For physics, chemistry and the like,&nbsp;<em>formal and final causation<\/em>&nbsp;cannot enter into&nbsp;<em>mechanical and mathematical models<\/em>.&nbsp;I call the results, &#8220;truncated material and efficient causalities&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the applications discussed here, Marxist &#8220;models&#8221; are dyadic actualities<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;embedded in category-based nested forms.&nbsp;&nbsp;The normal context is a (formalist and finalist) disciplinary language<sub>3c<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The potential is &#8216;an explanation that follows the format of scientific inquiry&#8217;<sub>1c<\/sub>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0274 For American expertise<sub>3b<\/sub>&nbsp;(in the service of Big Government (il)Liberalism), both&nbsp;<em>socialist and capitalist analyses<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;are presented in&nbsp;<em>the style of inquiry of the hard sciences<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The formalized lingo<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;<em>of science<\/em>&nbsp;is paradigmatic.&nbsp;&nbsp;As of 2025, the consequences have been significant.&nbsp;&nbsp;The citizen is now supposed to &#8220;believe the science&#8221;, rather than understand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0275 Here is a diagram of the three transits for this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide63.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide63.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide63.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide63-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0269 In section seven (7), the authors surf into the fourth paradigm. 0270 The material arrangements have changed.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, what about the immaterial arrangements?&nbsp;&nbsp; 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