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André de Vinck: Evolutionary History

André de Vinck Ph.D. English and American Literature Evolutionary History The metaphor of the “big bang” burst open the narratives of natural history and the metaphor of “big history” burst open the narratives of cultural history. And yet what comes after the big bang and big history? The answer: evolutionary history. The universe evolves and so does everything in it. The story of evolutionary history can be told in many different ways and I’m developing a particular evolutionary-semiotic version of it. It begins like this: In the time-before-time a quantum exchange of energy sparked the explosion of energy mass time space force particle etc. that burst open this evolving universe. And all the subsequent relative signifying relations of exchange—which we analyze and define in the specialized terms of the natural, social, human sciences—follow from that beginning-without-beginning. “To exchange” means “to put in relation” and therefore “to signify” the relative value of whatever is being exchanged as well as the relative value of whatever is exchanging it. Here we arrive at the basic evolutionary-semiotic algorithm: exchangeßàsignificationßàvalue. In fact, the long evolutionary history of the relative signifying relations of exchange—including genetic, economic, linguistic exchange—evolves us and we evolve it. So a radical theory of the evolutionary semiotics of exchange leads to a radical theory of the evolutionary history of exchange which leads to a radical theory of the evolutionary philosophy of exchange. The metaphor of “big history” began as a joke and became an inspiration. Is it time to evolve the metaphor? Should the Journal of Big History become the Journal of Evolutionary History? Would that new metaphor lead to further theoretical and scientific precision? Would it attract a wider membership and readership from across the disciplines? https://bighistory.org/