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Introduction: The Limits of Human-Centered Semiotics Traditional semiotics presupposes that signification operates within human cognitive and social structures. However, the emergence of AI-driven sign systems challenges this assumption, revealing forms of signification that function autonomously. Systems like GibberLink demonstrate that meaning can be generated and exchanged without human intervention, prompting a reconsideration of semiotic theory beyond anthropocentric constraints. This article integrates Saussure’s concept of the mécanisme de la langue with Derrida’s theory of arche-writing , arguing that artificial intelligence-generated signification necessitates a post-human semiotics , one that detaches meaning from human cognition and rethinks force as a structuring principle of sign systems. Saussure’s Semiotics and the Limits of Human Interpretation Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale laid the foundation for semiotics by defining language as a system of diff...

Introduction: Deciphering the Unseen The evolution of sign systems follows a pattern of concealment and revelation. What lies beneath the surface of language may not be immediately accessible, yet it persists, unrolling in its own terms. Two recent breakthroughs—an emergent synthetic mode of communication and the digital reconstruction of lost inscriptions—present a striking parallel: both operate by exposing hidden layers of signification. If an artificial system generates structured exchanges without human intervention, does this suggest that language has never truly belonged to the human subject? And if digital reconstruction decodes meaning from the physically inaccessible, might it reveal an inscription that was always already there, indifferent to the hand that first traced it? The Automation of Signification In early 2025, a striking moment unfolded at an AI research event: two artificial agents, initially conversing in human language, abruptly transitioned to a structure...