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Der dramatische Reichtum der Multimodalität. Überlegungen zur Selbstorganisation semiotischer Ressourcen anhand von Sichtbarkeit und Visualität

The question of the immanent organization of several semiotic modes in one cultural artifact remains unanswered. That organization cannot be ignored for a number of historical and systematic reasons (1), as some examples on the specific problem of visuality and visibility may show (2). As a preliminary step towards an answer that considers the heautonomy and the dynamic processu-ality of that organization, I suggest two mediating concepts (3): that of stacked media, and that of productively unreliable semiotic modes.