Engine Summer
"Is this an actual thing I’m putting together, or am I fooling myself?"
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. 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.
Session: Viscosity Redux
On June 26th! A session exploring semiotic "viscosity."
Session: Semiotic Tattoos
On April 24th! A session dedicated to semioticians' tattoos…
Falling Angel
"Though our actions may be predetermined by forces we cannot perceive, Paradise Lost teaches us, while plummeting towards our fate we can at the very least swerve."
Session: Semiotics in Latin America
A session on the unique uses of emotion, color and dissonance in Latin America.
The Soft Machine
"Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine"
Session: Mythical Semiotics
A session on how semioticians grapple with the perplexing allure of the mythical.
The Einstein Intersection
Myths can and will control us… unless we study how myths work.
Session: Guilty Pleasures
A session on the insights and inspiration to be found in “bad” cultural expressions.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
"Puzzling over cultural fragments that we cannot immediately comprehend…"