Book Publication – Inversioni. Senso dell’insensato

Ceriani, Giulia. Inversioni. Senso dell’insensato. Milano : Mimesis, 2024. Viviamo in una congiuntura che privilegia, in apparenza, la bulimia del senso. Siamo risucchiati da ipertestualità, intertestualità, eccedenze, escrescenze, ipertrofie: dalla saturazione mediale alla fascinazione dei big data, dalla dispersione della reticolarità all’eterno ritorno escheriano del gaming. La moltiplicazione per eccesso produce desemantizzazione: categoria difficile, scivolosa, solo…

172024Dec

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Book Publication – The Semiotics of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Moreno Barreneche, Sebastián. The Semiotics of the Covid-19 Pandemic. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse the meaning-making mechanisms and dynamics that occurred during, and revolved around, the pandemic. Demonstrating the utility of semiotic theory, concepts…

192024Nov

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Book Publication – Semiotic Ideologies. Patterns of Meaning–Making in Language and Society

Semiotic Ideologies. Patterns of Meaning–Making in Language and SocietyAuthor: Massimo Leone This book offers a comprehensive exploration of language and semiotic ideologies, focusing on how societies construct meaning through verbal and non-verbal communication. It distinguishes itself by adopting a novel approach that bridges linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology. The research dives into uncharted territory, shedding light…

42024Nov

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Punctum Semiotics Monographs

VOLUME 2: Nicola Dusi and Charo Lacalle (eds.) Chernobyl Calling. Narrative, Intermediality and Cultural Memory of a Docu-fiction. (Thessaloniki: Hellenic Semiotics Society, 2024, pp. 187, ISBN 972-618-82184-4-4) Table of Contents Nicola Dusi and Charo Lacalle, Cultural memory and the transmedia semiosphere – Giorgio Grignaffini, Chernobyl: A miniseries between fiction and reality – Nicola Dusi, History, drama, retelling: Intermedial realism in…

82024Jul

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New publication: Special issue of the journal Syn-Thèses, “Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts”, No. 15 (2024)

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to share the publication of the special issue No. 15 (2024) of the journal Syn-Thèses, entitled “Intermedial Crossovers in Audiovisual and Interactive Arts”. The issue is available at: https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/syn-theses/issue/view/1213/showToc Best wishesEvangelos Kourdis

222024May

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New book by Fernando Andacht “Signos del imaginario cotidiano. Guía para Interpretar Nuestra Vida Mediática (2024)”

In the book are analyzed different kinds of media products (films, series, novels, mediated political discourse, Netflix series) from the theoretical perspective of Peircean semiotic. For this approach is used the theory of the social imaginary developed by Greek-French thinker Cornelius Castoriadis. The website of the Publisher, Grupo Planeta, where the eBook can be bought…

132024May

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Publication of the Selected Proceedings ”Signs of Europe: discourses, mythologies, politics of representation”

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the publication, for IASS News, of the Selected Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Semiotics ”Signs of Europe: discourses, mythologies, politics of representation”, organized by the Hellenic Semiotic Society, the School of French Language and Literature, and the Laboratory of Semiotics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)…

152024Apr

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Nouveau parution: “Insaisissable vivant. Une sémio-anthropologie de l’art”, de Anne Beyaert-Geslin

Cher.e.s collègues, J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution de l’ouvrage d’Anne Beyaert-Geslin, Insaisissable vivant. Une sémio-anthropologie de l’art, aux Presses universitaires de Limoges (PULIM, collection Semiotica Viva). Cet essai, préfacé par Jacques Fontanille, propose un dialogue entre sémiotique, anthropologie et théories de l’art dans le but d’évaluer la capacité (ou l’incapacité) de l’art « à…

152024Jan

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New publication: “From Mimetic Translation to Artistic Transduction: A Semiotic Perspective on Virginia Woolf, Hector Berlioz, and Bertold Brecht”, by Dinda Gorlée

Transduction is beyond translation: both retranslation and auto translation move beyond the transferal of one language to another to signify the speculative attempts to examine and execute the belief, concepts, and meaning of the level of different arts. The art of translating means the analytical exercise of transferring, rotating, and twisting one language into another…

82024Jan

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New publication: “The hybrid face. Paradoxes of the visage in the digital era”, edited by Massimo Leone

This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face. The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face, exploring its biological and social functions, the concept…