Abstract:

Abstract From a life dedicated to the crafts of the intellect, in its mission of ethical transmission of knowledge, after all, semiotics is the ethics of the intellect, and having reached the point of maturity of his research and thought, Alexandre Rocha da Silva proposed the development of his postdoctoral project under the supervision of Lucia Santaella. For this, he requested the support of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, which was granted to him in a dispute in which few were considered. The embryo of the project started to be fertilized in 2018 and, throughout 2019, Alexandre lived in São Paulo to cooperate not only with the supervisor, but also with all her research environment. Alexandre's dedication to all activities developed at the Post-Graduate Studies Program in Communication and Semiotics at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo that housed his project was admirable, as was everything else where he placed his presence, also extended to the Post-Graduate Studies Program in Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design, in the same University. As a result of this coexistence, Lucia Santaella now has all the material that was produced during the course of the research, in addition to the first chapters for the publication of a co-authored book. The article presented here represents the starting point of this co-authorship, which at this moment intends to make public the research project that inseminated the development of the project carried out by Alexandre Rocha da Silva.

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