Transparencia y opacidad en las ideologías semióticas contemporáneas: Un modelo semiótico para estudiar el cambio cultural

Abstract

It is postulated that there is no progress or true cultural evolution, but an incessant leveling between opposites where there is no static equilibrium, but a tension without interruption. A tension that constantly animates the semiosphere. There are stages of cultural and social changes that throughout history have resulted from the dialectic tension between transparent rhetoric and the rhetoric of opacity, where achievements and failures have crystallized. Among them, the way in which the building of the Reichstag in Berlin, closed in its architectural structure, opens after the Cold War by installing a glass dome at the top, or the WikiLeaks case as a revolutionary act of transparency before a government tending to the concealment of information.