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Sign Worlds, a Newsletter aimed at promoting the awareness of sign processes.

The House of Signs, a foundation dedicated to the semiotic legacy of Martin Krampen, launches Sign Worlds, a Newsletter aimed at promoting the awareness of sign processes.

Governance by Medical Models: Eight Semiotic Principles

By Gary Genosko Governance by medical modelling is the attempt to make reality conform to predictions and projections. There is a political imperative in now familiar exhortations, that require broad legislative and regulatory changes that […]

OBITUARY

Paolo Fabbri Since June 2, the international semiotic community laments the loss of one of its most distinguished and dedicated members. After graduating from the University of Florence (1962) Paolo Fabbri (b. Rimini, 1939) continued […]

Multiculturalism as multimodal communication: a semiotic perspective By Alin Olteanu

By Alin Olteanu The aim of my recent book, Multiculturalism as multimodal communication: a semiotic perspective (2019) is to develop a criticism of culturalism based on semiotic theory. In the greater picture of humanistic research, […]

Sex, Art, and Semiosis

A new course by Per Aage Brandt is now available in the Semiotic Institute Online. It consists of twelve inspiring lessons that the authors had first ironically titled “Crumbs”. SemiotiX features here the fourth lesson. […]

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Pragmatics: Performance Poetry: The Practice

So I get on stage, finally, because the compere has just said my name. I’ve spent the last few minutesscanning the crowd as well as looking at my counterpart competitors in this slam poetrycompetition. I’m […]

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Semiotics of Performance Poetry

By Chris Arning Many performers adopt ‘on stage personas’ or ‘adopt a mask’ when ‘in role’ on stage or in front of the camera. They ‘perform their identity’ as academic Judith Butler would have1 it. […]

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Signs and symbols in space and place – Sites of memory in contemporary Europe and the U.S.

Ken Foote, University of Connecticut, USA Anett Árvay, University of Szeged, Hungary Sites of memory are often powerful symbols. Varying greatly in form, scale, and meaning, they range from massive memorials honoring key events in a […]

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INTRODUCING A NEW RUBRIC: SEMIOTICS IN THE FIRST PERSON

Semiotics is not merely a set of theories and methods whose aim is to explore and explain various meaning-making processes through detached analytical discourses. It is also a cognitive experience that affects our ways of […]

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A Smart Semiotics e-seminar took place May 9: Storytelling and the sense of place: Water power, landscape conservation, and the roles of narratives

A Smart Semiotics e-seminar took place May 9: Storytelling and the sense of place: Water power, landscape conservation, and the the roles of narratives. Matthias Egeler Concepts like home, dwelling, and a sense of place have […]

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Congress Report – 8th annual SAS conference

By Alan Crawley From 15 to 18th April of 2021 the Society for Affective Science (SAS) organized their 8th annual conference being this their first time with online modality. The numbers of this event are […]