Panico, Mario. 2024. Spaces for Nostalgia : Difficult Memories and Material Consolations. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62929-7. How is nostalgia expressed through space? Studies of nostalgia have long illustrated the emotional dynamics which condition our desire to go back to a time and a space that belong to the past. This book addresses this condition from an…
Peverini, Paolo. Bruno Latour in the Semiotic Turn. An Inquiry into the Networks of Meaning. Cham: Springer, 2024 This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour’s works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and relaunches a dialogue that was as heated as it was fruitful, but still little recognized within the social sciences….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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)…
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…
