Semiotyka i kamuflaż
Semiotics and camouflage

Author(s): Paolo Fabbri
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: semiotics; camouflage; signs; art; nature; public life
Summary/Abstract: The following article is dedicated to the concept of camouflage understood as a set of methods of concealment allowing otherwise visible animals, military vehicles and other objects to remain unnoticed by blending with their environment or by resembling something else. The camouflage is an essential issue for semiotics as regards the systems of representation, but also to the distortion of it. According to Umberto Eco that the author made reference to signs are made to lie. Nevertheless, the camouflage must reconsider the idea of sign. It is not limited to a referential issue (which stands for something else), but broadens the focus of the production and representation of Self and Other that operate under the forces at play. The article outlines, at the level of semiotics, different types of camouflage including nature, military, art and literature camouflage exemplifying its presence and explaining the purpose for using it in several life contexts.

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