Floyd Merrell is a professor of semiotics theory and Spanish American literature at Purdue University. He is a transdiciplinary researcher and had written many important books. The paper -- It becomes a matter of self and its others, is part of the book Signs becoming signs. Merrell, based on the thinking of Charles Sanders Peirce, discuss the semiosis process, that the universe is a perfusion of signs incessantly becoming other signs. Other discussed peircean concepts like vagueness and generality are explored by Merrell to dissolve some of the more traditional dichotmies of thougth. Merrell's research scopes Zeno’s paradoxes, the concept of complementarity, the mathematical continuum, Gödel's theorem, physics (relativity, quantum theory, Bohm’s interconectedness, Prigogine’s dissipative structures), biology (Varela and Maturama, Schrödinger’s oneness of consciousness), and philosophy (Deleuze and Guattari).

Floyd Merrell’s Books

MERRELL, Floyd. Semiotic foundations: steps toward an epistemology of written texts. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1982.

__________. Pararealities: The nature of our fictions and how we know them. Amsterdam, John Benjaminn,1983

__________. Deconstruction reframed. West Lafayette, Purdue Univ. Press,1985.

__________. Signs becoming signs: our perfusive, pervasive universe. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1991a.

__________. Unthinking thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, mathematics, and the new physics. West Lafayette, Purdue Univ. Press,1991b.

__________. Sign, textuality, world. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1992

__________. Semiosis in the postmodern age. West Lafayette, Purdue Univ. Press, 1995a.

__________. Peirce’s semiotics now. A primer. Toronto, Canadian Scholar Press, 1995b.

__________. Signs grow: semiosis and life processes. Toronto, Univ. of Toronto Press, 1996.

__________. Peirce, signs, and meaning. Toronto, Univ. Toronto Press, 1997a.

__________. Simplicity and complexity; pondering literature, science, and painting. Ann Arbor, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1997b .