Challenging the World
Comic juxtapositions, flaring brilliances, and no less heartbreaking impossibilities.
Josh Glenn
Josh Glenn is a Boston- and 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 include The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the family activities guide Unbored. 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.
Donald Steals the Show
Mickey’s repressed characteristics had returned… in a deformed (duckbilled) fashion!
A Bucket of Blood
Beatnik gives us anti-highbrow Beat-ness without the exaltation.
Neotonic Mickey
Over time, Mickey became progressively more juvenile in appearance.
Robocop
How best to convey the pathos and tragedy of the Ex-Ex-Human Condition?
Nurturer vs. Visionary
Making sense of how brands, media and culture are responding to COVID-19. (3 of 4)
Personality Crisis
A brand suffering from a personality crisis will get lost in the noise of the category.
High-Lowbrow Mickey
"He is the voice and personification of the weltschmerz to the sophisticate."
Debating in A Vacuum
“It’s like a jigsaw puzzle, all one color. No key to where the pieces fit in.”
Doctor vs. Counselor
Making sense of how brands, media and culture are responding to COVID-19. (2 of 4)