INITIAL #3
Meaning in Language and Music
-Sign and Slaughter-
Abdurrahman Gülbeyaz 著
四六変形判／127×188mm／184頁
スリーブ箱／たとう式箱／たとう紙包み／スクラム製本／2016年
AD＋D＋DTP：松本久木
発行：INITs
ISBN 978-4-944055-74-6

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This work arose from the observation of, and insight into, the circumstance that there is an irreconcilable, antithetical relation between, on the one hand, what is brought into the world by that which terms itself ‘human civilisation’ in the course of its ten thousand years of recorded development and, on the other hand, the modern, self-referential human account thereof.
This state of affairs demonstrates itself patently enough in the exclusively human behaviour to label the specifically human as ‘inhuman’ with an unerring methodicalness – such that it requires nothing more than picking up those deeds, behaviours, postures, events, artefacts, institutions, etc. which are marked by humans with the attribute ‘inhuman’ to ascertain those features and properties which differentiate the human being from the rest of the earth dwellers.
Departing from this – more often than not – lethal irony and laying open how human individuals deal with and make sense of the universe and their unsolicited being in it as sentient living things equipped with thinking and speaking skills, the line of reasoning reflects vehemently the need to critically reassess the conceptual infrastructure and the dominating mode of production of so-called modern thought and to point forthrightly to the reciprocal causal relationship between these and the untold destructiveness and life-hostility of human agents.
Alongside, and in connection with, a confrontational discussion regarding the mainstays of the prevalent mode of knowledge production, the book develops an entirely different account of the human condition and human activities, impelling not only the professionals of the knowledge production sector of modern societies but also, and even more so, the consumers, that is, the average members of the human collective, to radically rethink everything concerning their acts and omissions.

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Abdurrahman Gülbeyaz
Born in Iskenderun in Turkey, Abdurrahman Gülbeyaz studied linguistics, musicology and medical sociology at the universities of Gazi and Bosporus in Turkey and at the university of Hamburg in Germany, obtained a Master of Arts degree in ‘English Language Literature and Culture’ from Hamburg University. He completed his doctorate in the Human Sciences Faculty of the University of Osaka in Japan. Semiotics, linguistics and philosophy constitute the nucleus of his research fields.
Abdurrahman Gülbeyaz is currently Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Language and Culture at Osaka University in Japan.

アブドゥルラッハマン・ギュルベヤズ
1962年、トルコ・イスケンデルン生まれ。大阪大学言語文化研究科准教授。トルコのガージ大学、ボスフォラス大学、ドイツのハンブルグ大学で言語学、音楽学、医療社会学を専攻。大阪大学人間科学研究科にて、「言語と音楽における意味：言語行為と音楽行為における変形過程」で博士号取得。記号論、言語学、音楽学、哲学が主な学際的研究分野となる。