REVIEWS

Frank Jacob, editor, War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation,Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence, Routledge Studies in ModernHistory, London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 324pp. By Gary Genosko The lives of […]

Robert Yelle, author of The Semiotics of Religion: Signs of the Sacred in History (Bloomsbury, 2012) reviews Devotion and Artifice: Themes of Suspension in the History of Religions, by Peter Jackson Rova (De Gruyter, 2023). […]

By Geoffrey Sykes. BA 10 Seat 44K. 6.10 A few minutes after takeoff a most dramatic thing happened to the aircraft. Let me explain. Seated, I realize that the main reason for arriving early at […]

Semiotics is not merely a set of theories and methods whose aim is to explore and explain various meaning-making processes through detached analytical discourses. It is also a cognitive experience that affects our ways of […]

‘Sensemaking across the human organism’ By Adolofo Garcia Michael Mair, 2022-2023 This commentary is on a seminar given by Adolfo Garcia in October 23rd 2022 for a ’ Smart Semiotics’ webinar series. Garcia addressed the […]

Multisensorial  interferences in multimodal communication: the role of olfaction from seduction to aversion. (IPrA Brussels 2023) by  Paul Bouissac.  The research on multimodality bears almost exclusively on visual and acoustic modes    of communication. The […]

“The spectator is the most important element in the art of the future.” Marcel Duchamp Imagine entering a museum and seeing an extraordinary work of art. It invites you to question reality and answer simple […]

From the University of Torino, Daria Arkhipova  discusses her research on the role of AI on social media.

By Gastón Cingolani. Eliseo Verón (1935-2014) was an Argentinian social scientist, and probably the most importantsemiotician that Argentina has given, with a huge influence in Latin America and someEuropean centers. His work constituted an invaluable […]