If “semiotics” or “the reading of signs” could be a method of living, it would have to at once be a method of thought, action, and self-accruing history (or the dialectic of thought and action over time). The semiotician of life should be thus able to say the following in polysemy, or in a multivocal signification:
- reading any life-semiotic analysis should directly inform – it should adequately describe reality conceived of as signs
- reading (ibid.) should directly enable some kind of action
- that action should itself be conceivable as a sign, as should its vector relation to the signs against which it reacted