... CARY WOLFE, SERIES EDITOR 12 A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with A Theory of Meaning Jakob von Uexkiill 11 Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology Jussi Parikka ... human beings All animals employ signs, but only humans are aware of the nature of signs as triadic relations (cf Poinsot, Maritain and Peirce) AU animals are semiosic, but only human animals are ... human Real animals are a symbol of status, ecologically rare, and replaced by very lifelike flesh -and- blood replicas Rick Deckard (a partial homonymic anagram of the author's name, Dick) is a...