Media Diet
"Many of us continue with 'normal life,' even as we are confronted by signs of crisis: political instability and new conflicts."
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Embassytown
"The Ariekei's discovery of the myriad possibilities of signifier/signified connections proves catastrophic."
Media Diet
"Unlike the rational mindset we semioticians are often trained to prioritize, music speaks directly to the visceral…"
Media Diet
We semioticians must "question things more closely, adopt different perspectives, and pursue more unconventional paths."
Pikachu
"Pika pika."
Media Diet
"Clients rarely list gaming as an area of culture to explore, which seems wild to me."
Media Diet
"As a movie addict, I’m drawn to 'loaded absences,' where what’s left out often says more than what’s shown."
Media Diet
"As a semiotician, I consume a lot — high and low, fast and slow."
Solaris
"Is true understanding even possible? What does understanding imply?"
Media Diet
"I remember the feeling of ambiguity, the sensation that each path in life can potentially lead to the right place… or the wrong one."
Quimby
“High Culture for Lowbrows”
Media Diet
"Embodied explorations provide sensory intelligence that digital surveillance simply cannot capture."
Media Diet
"Social media is a great way of working through intellectual problems… by allowing me to ‘offshore’ my own thinking."
Media Diet
"Since I started studying semiotics, I have been obsessed with trying to find the unmediated…"