Mediatized semiosis and power: interfaces for thinking about algorithmic means and platforms 203 without a doubt, good reflection to insert semiosis in the issue of power, also because it highlights the mental experience of the species to think about semiosis intertwined with the social. But even this perspective does not locate the psychological and social relations that not only contextualize, but also trigger and distribute beliefs in socio-anthropological classifications; that is, for many, the psycho-anthropo-sociological conditions that underlie these authority beliefs are just mediations, without analyzing how such conditions are constituents and instituters of the sign. Or they do not pose the question: if it is true that there is a belief established from the ‘authority,’ who does au- thorize the authority? The answers, generally, place authority as a phenomenon external to the sign. Here, we propose that the sign is authority. 3.1 Abyssal matrices and authority Therefore, our argument is different. We start with Peirce’s matrices. They are popularized as icon, index, and sym- bol in correspondence with the concepts of firstness, secondness, and thirdness. Many reduce the complexity of Peirce’s logic to this, making it a linear approach. The matrices systematized by Walter-Bensen (2000) draw this complexity by placing the relations of successive rows and columns in dyads, triads, and so on. The first derivative is known: Icon Index Symbol Icon 1.1 1.2 1.3 Index 2.1 2.2 2.3 Symbol 3.1 3.2 3.3 Not existing in a “pure” state, the starting categories must be considered abstractions, but at the same time achiev- able in thought in the analysis process. The problem is that they are abyssal matrices, which imply an infinitive displacement of possible and potential categories. It has an epistemological and analytical implication: it is impossible to exhaust the meanings of a phenomenon, as there will always be a later category that
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