Semiótica de la reparación

Each culture develops a specific semiotic ideology of catastrophe and reparation. Comparing and contrasting them reveals continuities and discontinuities. The traditional Japanese aesthetics resolves the problem of the anxiety for a potential catastrophe by focusing on the fullness of immanence. In the West, on the contrary, for which the idea of future is essential, the fatalistic approach of the Greco-Roman civilization is replaced by the Christian idea of the miracle. Investigating the iconography of the broken glass and its saintly reparations is a way to come to terms with the aesthetic and semiotic consequences of the transition.