I think semiotics deserves a sub-forum. Charles Sander Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, those who came after and those who came before. I have been thinking and reading about this stuff lately and would appreciate opportunities for insightful discussion. (References to Dan Brown's fiction would be discouraged unless absolutely relevant.)

From an e-mail I received (talk about having fun with semiotics). We all know those cute little computer symbols called 'emoticons' where :) means a smile and :( is a frown. Well, how about some ... (_~_) a latin ass (_/_) an Asian ass (_+_) a French ass As for me, I am feeling like a (__!__) and a (_zzz_) after yesterday's Thanksgiving feast. Click here for more about semiotics.

... , this Richardson classic is the story of a servant whose master tries repeatedly to rape her Divine Comedy: Dante's beauteous, ecstatic vision of the afterlife, inspired by his pedophilic obsession with nine-year old Beatrice. Gulliver's Travels: Swift's sadomasochistic fantasy life in three acts. Continue reading "Sex and Sexual Semiotics in Literature"...

God, loving symmetry, decided that since he was a plurality of persons constituted by relations, that creation would be a plurality of relations constituted by persons. He therefore spoke by his word and made a plurality of beings which, when they were compresent with created persons, would be signs (that is, they would be a certain relation to a cognitive power).

I was fascinated by a presentation by Elizabetta Adami on issues on literacy in the contemporary semiotic landscape at the workshop on ‘Technology Enhanced Learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation’ at the Alpine Rendezvous at Garmisch Partenkirchen. Here are my live blogging notes on her presentation. Her slides can be found here and their is a ...

This piece of recombinant awesomesness is just beautiful - and, importantly I think, NOT A REMIX. See, recombinant compositions began as remixes, this is true. But increasingly I have come to think that recombinance is not the same as remixing and this is a lovely example of why. This composition - and it is a composition - is created from fragments of culture, but is not a remix of any of the ...

... into a highly complex network of changing relationships. Semiotics suggests a sort of molecular landscape in which what we are accustomed to ... appearance assumed by an underlying network of more elementary units. Or rather, semiotics gives us a sort of photomechanical explanation of semiosis, revealing that where ... a bunch of formants.’ Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics (1976), p49 – 50

... Imagine waves radiating outwards from a pebble being dropped in the pond. Semiotics becomes the study of how these waves form, and what happens when they intersect - how knowledge is being ... the material world has any meaning-in-itself, the meaning is given by people, and I think its a place where semiotics comes in and becomes part of the explanation. 2. Was thinking about pedagogy, was thinking ...

... and elsewhere: Christopher Hutton, Meaning, Time and the Law: Ex Post and Ex Ante Perspectives, 22 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 279-292 (2009).Massimo Leone, Massimo, The Semiotic Therapy of Religious Law, 22 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 293-306 (2009).The Journal of Church & State, Vol. 51, No. 1 (2009) has ...

it is in the light of all this that i propose now to try and elaborate the first part of a theory of semiotics, valid in the main for both medieval and modern islamic theology, starting with the dictum already ... is indeed ruptured. - ian richard netton, allah transcendent: studies in the structure and semiotics of islamic philosophy, theology and cosmology (curzon press, 1994), 324-325. what a ...

... based Systems Engineering - Knowledge Management AREA 3: INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION - Systems Engineering Methodologies - Information Engineering Methodologies - Organisational Semiotics - Semiotics in Computing - Requirements Analysis - Ontology Engineering - Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations (e.g. UML, ER variants) - ...

... alert) on the idea of biosemiotics. She is working with biologists to develope this idea. She went on to speculate about the semiotics of a species. From there I started speculation about dogs..and what the semiotics of smell might be for dogs. my mind drifted from there..into the next session, Friday AM. Notes from Wendy Wheeler's talk I saw a presentation ...

... of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Google Books John N. Deely: Intentionality and Semiotics Related links: Semiootika osakond : John Deely Dr. Deely Earns Aquinas Medal for Excellence in Christian Philosophy Semiotic Bibliography Semiotics and ontology: John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas) Utopian Realism

... one believes or what one finds beautiful can be believed or seen as beautiful by those who come after." – Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, philosopher and professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, in an exchange with Carlo Maria Martini, celebrated Christian scholar, theologian and Archbishop Emeritus of Milan. From "Belief or Nonbelief?," a compilation of correspondence ...

... a picture to be made) - subliminal suggestion(s) which is created by the use of signs / signifiers (things that stand for / represent something). Or, to put it another way, semiology / semiotics - the use of signs in the construction of meaning. That said, the remains of a cored apple pictured above could well have been created (by the wife) as the result of the power of subliminal suggestion - ...