We would like to draw your attention to the publication of this special issue of La Deleuziana, an international peer-reviewed journal, devoted to the dialogue between Deleuze and semiotics. The issue brings together contributions by semioticians from different schools, as well as philosophers and cultural theorists, who engage with a core set of concepts and problematics…
Call for Papers: E|C n. 46, 2026 Food branding. Tendenze e resistenze del gusto
E|C n. 46, 2026 Food branding. Tendenze e resistenze del gusto (a cura di Dario Mangano, Davide Puca e Ilaria Ventura Bordenca (Università di Palermo)) In questo insieme di prospettive, la semiotica del food branding non coincide con un’applicazione della semiotica al marketing, ma emerge come un campo teorico e analitico autonomo: un luogo in cui pratiche,…
Journal: deSignis, issue 44, Semiotics of consumption ritual
deSignis begins 2026 with the launch of its new issue, No. 44, dedicated to the semiotics of consumption. deSignis’ issue 44, Semiotics of consumption ritual, was edited by Paulina Gómez Lorenzini, Bruno Pompeu, and Clotilde Perez. Semiotics of consumption rituals, deSignis 44, is available in open access on: https://www.designisfels.net/publicacion/semiotica-de-los-rituales-de-consumo
Book Publication: Motifs in Art as Agents of Meaning
Crucq, Arthur. Motifs in Art as Agents of Meaning. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2025 Departing from a metaphorical comparison by Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti between the underlying principles of drawing and weaving, this book will show how seemingly abstract motifs in their realization already acquire the potential to refer to content. This opens a…
Appel à Contributions: L’analyse et sa reproductibilité. Science des arts et des textes.
Ouvrage à paraître aux Éditions Honoré Champion, coll. Lexica, 2027. Coordination : Anne Beyaert-Geslin (MICA, U. Bordeaux Montaigne), Jacques Fontanille (CeReS, U. de Limoges) et Ofra Lévy (Thalim, U. Sorbonne Nouvelle). Date de tombée (deadline) : 02 Avril 2026 Les sciences des arts et des textes placent en leur centre la question de l’analyse et des…
Call for Papers: Lexia n. 50 – Ecologies of Meaning: Semiosis in Nonhuman Landscapes
Lexia (Scopus-indexed, ANVUR A-ranked), the international peer-reviewed journal of CIRCe (University of Turin), announces issue n. 50, devoted to the theme Ecologies of Meaning: Semiosis in Nonhuman Landscapes.This special issue invites contributions that explore how meaning emerges, circulates, and transforms across nonhuman environments, where semiosis can no longer be understood as an exclusively human process. In a context…
Book publication: Here Comes the Sign: The Semiotics of Popular Music
Martinelli, Dario. (2025). Here Comes the Sign: The Semiotics of Popular Music. Cham: Springer This text is an original and unique introduction to musical semiotics through the use of popular music acts and repertoires of global cultural impact. The basic idea of this is that the songs of The Beatles, Queen, ABBA, Madonna, Michael Jackson…
Book Publication: Sémiotique du mythe
Santiago Guillén. Sémiotique du mythe. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Le mythe peut être appréhendé comme notion et forme discursive en sciences du langage et en sémiotique. Des lectures critiques (1858-2025) de courants variés (pré-saussuriens, structuralistes, etc.) permettent de proposer des cadres théoriques et méthodologiques pour étudier les mythes contemporains.
Call for Papers: Semiosis en Communication
This conference explores the role of semiosis in communication. Objects of interdisciplinary knowledge par excellence, semiotics and communication are complementary ways of world mastery, of the big game, just like Solomon Marcus (2011) would say. The main objective of the International Conference Semiosis in Communication is to emphasize the importance of semiotic type queries in the communication sciences…