In Part I of this essay, which deals with Peircean semiotics, we stated that Peirce is, above all, a logician and a metaphysician rather than a communication theorist. Based on the idea that everything real is rational, he seeks to fit all the interpretations into his faltering trilogies under a law of the Sign and an imperative of the Code. The rigor of his logical positivism does not provide space for objects of perception or for the extralinguistic. In this second part of the essay, we discuss the limits of the diagrammatic method, and the paradoxical tendency that Peirce's infinite regression has for ending in the Idea and in religious metaphysics. And last but not least, we discuss the use of semiotics in unscrupulous commitments to the new forms of power.
semiotics; Peirce; diagrammatic method; logocentrism; web 3.0