Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics: A new issue marks its 10th anniversary We are pleased to announce the publication of Punctum’s Winter 2024 special issue on Semiotics X Curating, guest-edited by Stéphanie Bertrand and Sotirios Bahtsetzis. This issue marks the 10th anniversary of the peer-reviewed, gold open-access journal launched by the Hellenic Semiotic Society in…
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We are very happy to announce the publication of issue n. 263 of Semiotica, entirely in OPEN ACCESS: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/semi/2025/263/html Issue 263 of _Semiotica_ offers a multifaceted exploration of sign processes across cultural, technological, and epistemological domains, reaffirming the journal’s commitment to advancing semiotic inquiry in both traditional and emerging contexts. The contributions gathered in this volume…
Francesco PILUSO, Karina ABDALA, Massimo LEONE. Semiotica Dei Filtri. I Saggi Di Lexia. Roma: Aracne, 2025. https://www.aracneeditrice.eu/it/pubblicazioni/semiotica-dei-filtri-francesco-piluso-massimo-leone-9791221818055.html. I saggi raccolti in Semiotica dei filtri cercano di indagare la pluralità di significati culturali, le molteplici configurazioni narrative e le evoluzioni tecno-estetiche del filtro, a partire dall’ambivalenza linguistica di questo oggetto, resa in inglese dalla dialettica tra…
Kull, Kalevi and Velmezova, Ekaterina. Sphere of Understanding: Tartu Dialogues with Semioticians. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111435985 The book presents dialogues with fourteen highly influential semioticians: Juri Lotman, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Boris Uspenskij, Umberto Eco, Paolo Fabbri, Myrdene Anderson, Winfried Nöth, Gunther Kress, Roland Posner, Stuart Kauffman, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Terrence Deacon, Paul Cobley, and Jaan…
Emmeche, Claus. Semiotics of Friendship: An Encyclopedic Approach. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111423098 A friend should be able to be an attentive listener, which made semiotician Roland Barthes wonder in his intriguing dictionary of love, “cannot friendship be defined as a space with total sonority?”. This volume takes on the encyclopedic task – in…
We invite scholars, researchers, and students to an interdisciplinary academic forum exploring the evolving landscape of creativity and creative labor in the age of Artificial Intelligence. This event will address two key perspectives: first, the semiotic analysis of creativity as a textual strategy for AI-driven content generation, and second, the practical implications for current and…
The current edition of the Southern Semiotic Review Issue 21 2025 (I) journal can be found here. As with previous issues there is a good range of international authors. There is still room for one or two publication ready papers for the forthcoming mid year issue, or else generally for the end of the year.
