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…

Cattacin, Sandro ; Gamba, Fiorenza ; Waeber, Olivier (dir.). Penser et Planifier La Ville Des Différences. Zurich: Seismo. 2024. Dédié à la mémoire du grand architecte Franco Zagari, cet ouvrage contient aussi le dernier article qu’il a rédigé. Les villes se caractérisent par leur pluralisme. Ce fait devient pertinent dans la pratique de la gouvernance…