Thick Description (Deduction)
How do we identify paradigms and thematic complexes?
Analysis
Viewing a subject though a semiotic lens — in order to ascertain not only what it means, but how.
Stay Home
“Staying home saves lives”
Forties Backlash
"A degenerate 'middlebrow' horror, mass-produced for profit."
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Comical yet not funny, equal-opportunity in its portrayal of human folly, artificial in the extreme.
Mind-Blowing Gum
Wide-eyed expressions of shock and awe.
Mickey’s Dork Age
From 1944–1953, Mickey was a Mouse Without Qualities.
Dazed and Confused
Single-night movies aren’t snapshots, they’re moonlit summoning rituals.
Scientist vs. Life Coach
Making sense of how brands, media and culture are responding to COVID-19. (4 of 4)
Parenting PWNs
“Win big at parenting.”
Donald Steals the Show
Mickey’s repressed characteristics had returned… in a deformed (duckbilled) fashion!
A Bucket of Blood
Beatnik gives us anti-highbrow Beat-ness without the exaltation.
Thin Description
How do we surface and dimensionalize source codes?
Pet Family
Pets depicted as friends and family members.
Neotonic Mickey
Over time, Mickey became progressively more juvenile in appearance.