The Man with Six Senses
"We are surrounded by imperceptible, patterned forces that subtly guide our behavior…"
Josh Glenn
Josh Glenn is a Kingston (NY)-based consulting semiotician. He is cofounder of the consultancy Semiovox, editor of the websites SEMIOVOX and HILOBROW, and founding editor of The MIT Press's proto-sf RADIUM AGE series. He is an adjunct instructor at RISD and convenor of the monthly online Semiofest Sessions. His books (as writer and/or editor) include The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, the family activities guide Unbored, and the 2025 anthology Before Superman: Superhumans of the Radium Age. In the ’90s, Josh published the intellectual zine/journal Hermenaut; in the 2000s, he was a founding staffer and columnist for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section.
Media Diet
"I prefer magazines whose editors are concerned not with what they suspect I might want to read, but rather with what they want me to read."
Embassytown
"The Ariekei's discovery of the myriad possibilities of signifier/signified connections proves catastrophic."
Session: Doing Semiotics in Asia
A session on semiotics in Asian contexts… and how Eastern philosophies might expand the way we think about meaning-making.
Presto!
The semiotician who develops a working semiosphere model is an astronomer, geometer, mathematician … and cheesy magician too.
Session: Case Files
A session on serendipitous discoveries… that may or may not have been useful to our clients.
Session: Narrative Semiotics
A session on influencing global perceptions, driving social change, and consolidating symbolic and political power.