Session: Narrative Semiotics
A session on influencing global perceptions, driving social change, and consolidating symbolic and political power.
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.
Permeability
Are some sections of a semiosphere more “permeable” than others?
A spiritual diagram of the universe
"Purple and azure, white, green and golden, / Sphere within sphere…"
The Glass Bead Game
The game is a difficult and rewarding "exercise in deconstruction and decoding, pattern recognition, and patterning."
Session: Semiotics & Gender Equality
A session on reshaping narratives around gender and diversity in marketing and advertising.
Miss Bianca
"Through storm and rain and dark of night, never fail to do what's right."
Marketing Photo Op (Marketing)
Joined at the dip
"I appreciate puns as much as the next middle-aged Dad, but… no."
Tensegrity
"A spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity"