Debating in A Vacuum
“It’s like a jigsaw puzzle, all one color. No key to where the pieces fit in.”
Semiotics
Untangling the webs of significance within which we've suspended ourselves.
Making Sense
"Be passionate. Go crazy. This is the only way to do semiotics."
Making Sense
"Place is storied, and stories are placed."
Making Sense
"Like any great work (in any field), semiotic insight needs to move us emotionally."
Making Sense
"Nothing gives me more cultural satisfaction than a well-crafted Semiotic Square that works."
Session: Doing Semiotics in Asia
A session on semiotics in Asian contexts… and how Eastern philosophies might expand the way we think about meaning-making.
Semiofest Warsaw 2026
We invited the forthcoming conference's organizers to discuss its theme: VISCOSITY.
Making Sense
"Our bodies are part of our research tools — experience matters. It’s not just about hours in the office; it’s about the life you live."
Making Sense
"What a semiotician offers is an authentic reading of their culture that only they can provide."
Presto!
The semiotician who develops a working semiosphere model is an astronomer, geometer, mathematician … and cheesy magician too.
SEMIOFEST call for contributions
Call for contributions — for Semiofest Warsaw 2026 — is now open!
Making Sense
"It’s about attention to detail, and spotting what fits a pattern, and what doesn’t."
Session: Case Files
A session on serendipitous discoveries… that may or may not have been useful to our clients.
Making Sense
"Semiotics can be applied to creative development, artistic production, or policy design — not just to uncover meaning, but to shape it."
The great unity
"There is neither a here nor a beyond but the great unity."