The Sense of an Ending
"All too easily, the mind drifts back onto familiar paths."
Books
Semiotics in/of books…
The Name of the Rose
"Baskerville is obsessed with the meaning of things, their naming, our inevitable world of signs."
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"Our job is: life, the universe, and everything."
One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Semiotic analysis can cause surprise — provoking tears of joy! Or sorrow!"
My Family and Other Animals
"There's no reason ever to be bored; there's always something to decode."
Kosmos
"The semiosphere seductively lurks just out of our reach."
Priestdaddy
"The mind’s eye and the reasoning faculty hovering dually at all times…"
The Giver
"The themes we find can feel fleeting and unsteady — until we name them."
Lessons in Chemistry
"Cooking is not an exact science." Neither is semiotics.
Pattern Recognition
She has no way of knowing how she knows.
The Odyssey
To live in the wider world, you need to recognize that meaning is… "twisty."
Nice Work
She skilfully decodes everything she can see.
Babel-17
You must feel the research with instinct, intuition, and empathy.
Vurt
We journey to unfamiliar and sometimes quite strange conceptual spaces.