De la frontera al umbral: transformaciones de la semiosfera cultural en Lotman y Zilberberg

The objective of this article is to identify the construction of common
directionalities between the concepts of border and threshold within the
semiotic theory of culture through Yuri Lotman and Claude Zilberberg. To
address our research objective, we conducted a critical, convergent and synthetic
review of the representative literature of both authors' proposals. This
methodological purpose aims to make an integrated reading of the concepts of
border and threshold so that they generate new frameworks and thematic
perspectives on a semiotics of culture. The hypothesis is that the articulation of
the threshold within the theory of a culture dependent on the topological,
fundamental and narrative opposition between the center and the periphery,
allows the portrayal of more versatile semiospheres where the peripheral figure
falls apart in the most ubiquitous and temporarily unstable movements of
particular cultures such as those economic or consumer semiospheres.