Decoder

Exploring fictional semiotician-esque action as depicted in our favorite books, movies, TV shows, and comics.


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The Wonder

How to marshal myth, meaning, and embodied imagination…


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Priestdaddy

"The mind’s eye and the reasoning faculty hovering dually at all times…"


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The Giver

"The themes we find can feel fleeting and unsteady — until we name them."


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Lessons in Chemistry

"Cooking is not an exact science." Neither is semiotics.



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Music Box

"Each new clue twists and turns Talbot’s perspective… and ours too."


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The Odyssey

To live in the wider world, you need to recognize that meaning is… "twisty."


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Nice Work

She skilfully decodes everything she can see.


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Babel-17

You must feel the research with instinct, intuition, and empathy.


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Vurt

We journey to unfamiliar and sometimes quite strange conceptual spaces.


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A.I. Artificial Intelligence

"Versions of the Blue Fairy connote everything from faith to desire, dream, destination…"


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Arrival

As she shifts languages she shifts worlds, perspectives and motivations…

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