Semiofest Sessions
Announcing an online series of semiotics-oriented get-togethers!
Semiotics
Untangling the webs of significance within which we've suspended ourselves.
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.