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
"Make abstract ideas and observations clear, without losing the rigour or wonder of whatever ideas you had in the first place. "
Session: Viscosity Redux
On June 26th! A session exploring semiotic "viscosity."
Making Sense
"Unlike LLMs, we help build a deep understanding of culture, not just engage in pattern recognition."
Making Sense
"You notice when a system is addicted to an old myth it can no longer metabolize."
Making Sense
"If analysis doesn’t restore the beauty, texture, or emotional vibration of an object, it becomes abstract."
Session: Festschrift for Malcolm
On May 29th! A session honoring Malcolm Evans…
Making Sense
"Do not rely only on your intuition or gut, but make sense of them using concepts, models and instruments produced by semioticians."
Making Sense
"I enjoy this discipline's ability to open minds, reveal new possibilities and energise people."
Making Sense
"Even when a project isn’t explicitly semiotic, the principles guide how I approach my ethnographic and cultural work."
Session: Semiotic Tattoos
On April 24th! A session dedicated to semioticians' tattoos…
Making Sense
"The leading edge of culture emerges first in the sensorial and experiential before it can be articulated in more cerebral ways."
Making Sense
"It’s an almost compulsive need to keep asking why, again and again, without settling too quickly on answers."
Making Sense
"Semiotics is clever and brilliant. It doesn’t need to try so hard to sound clever and brilliant."
Session: Semiotics in Latin America
A session on the unique uses of emotion, color and dissonance in Latin America.