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"We are ‘working amongst the ruins’ so there’s a scope to be creative and brave."
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What makes semioticians tick? We asked members of the international community of semiotic practitioners to answer 10 questions. Here's a series overview, organized by region.
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"Everything is or can be significant and worthy of our time."
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"The real power of semiotics lies in understanding how consumers create their own meaning systems."
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"We're all semioticians — we all 'decode' as part of our everyday lives."
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"You need to be comfortable with uncertainty, contradiction, and change."
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"We're surrounded by messages. The semiotician asks: How have these been configured?"
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"Cultivate a 'helicopter' view on things, concepts, and problems."
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"We are not leaders, we are guides and pathfinders."
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"Each new semiotics project is an Indiana Jones-type adventure."
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"Semiotics succeeds because of its vast and ambitious scope."
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"Achieving a deep, rich understanding of why we behave the way we do is the most rewarding part of the job."
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"Don’t set off to be a semiotician — instead, let semiotics set you off."
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"It’s a semiotician’s imagination, open mind, and creative ability which are truly rare."
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"Where everyone else sees things, a semiotician sees meaning."