"semiurgic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1991, Henry A. Giroux, Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics, page 63",
          "text": "Baudrillard (1981, 185f.) describes the transition from a metallurgic society, defined as a society of production, to a semiurgic order characterized by the proliferation of signs, simulacra, and images.",
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          "text": "Baudrillard's semiurgic culture is thus infused with simulated codes and models that actually produce the reality which they purport to represent (Seidman, 1994).",
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          "ref": "2005, Benjamin Bennett, All Theater is Revolutionary Theater, page 45",
          "text": "\"Semiurgic indeterminacy\" means the impossibility of deciding whether the meanings of drama should be classified as signification or as reference: signification being that semiurgic or sign-working process (normally recognized as dominant in literature) in which the signifier is prior in operation to the signified, which latter itself always has the character of a sign, not that of a somehow nonsignifying reality; reference being that process (normally thought of as characterizing daily experience) in which the sign responds to a prior \"referent,\" which has, at least relatively, the character of preexisting reality.",
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          "ref": "2012, Mikhail Epstein, Igor E. Klyukanov, The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto, page 106",
          "text": "The dictionary entry, as a semiurgic genre, is an important form of semiotic discourse that comprehensively describes a verbal sign as a unity of the signifier, the signified, and the context/usage.",
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