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.
Semiofest Sessions
Announcing an online series of semiotics-oriented get-togethers!
Generation OK
“Don’t be fooled into thinking there has to be a reason for everything.”
Future Peril
How to talk to people 10,000 years in the future.
The Sweetest Hangover
“If there’s a cure for this, I don’t want it!"
Code-X (Intro)
What are the implicit assumptions (or “mythologies”) we’ve absorbed?
Is This Heaven?
“I lend myself to the social game, I pose, I know I am posing, I want you to know that I am posing.”
Creolised Fashion
Brands borrowing from jostled signs, creolised into incomprehension.
Skin Beyond the Sign
Skin becomes a clear and purified channel of free-flowing communication.
Aging Disgracefully
While the physicality is exaggeratedly old the behavior is emphatically like that of a teenager.
Meaningful Luxury
Instructing luxury consumers on the importance and nature of discovery and how to, well, discover it.
Holy Jolie
A fantasy of healing and romantic redemption that’s wildly off the mark.
Ballad of a Thin Man
Is this the end of the road for European serotonin depletion culture?
Hear Me Roar
A new kind of activism previously unheard of in the kingdom.
Dynasty Reloaded
The unspoken expectation that the son is to be the father’s perfecting mirror.