Voto, Cristina. 2027. Machine-Readable Faces : Pixels, Proxies, Praxes. London: Routledge. Machine-Readable Faces: Pixels, Proxies, Praxes investigates how facial images have been operationalised, reshaping the conditions under which identity becomes intelligible and computable. Moving across visual semiotics, digital humanities, and computational studies, the book traces the emergence of facial data—from early digitisation experiments to dataset-driven…
Hammad, Manar, 2026. Lire l’espace: déployer les articulations sémantiques (agglomérations, privatisation, propriété, morphologie). Paris: Geuthner Les quatorze essais de ce recueil font suite à Lire l’espace, comprendre l’architecture (2006), Sémiotiser l’espace, décrypter architecture et archéologie (2015) et Lire l’espace, étendre le domaine sémiotique (2021) afin de mettre en place les concepts et méthodes nécessaires pour…
Leone, Massimo (ed.), 2026. l senso incantato. Soavità e stridori della risonanza Roma: Arcane Il volume esplora l’incanto come forma complessa dell’esperienza contemporanea: modalità attraverso cui il senso torna a vibrare fra voce, corpo, memoria, tecnologia, arte, religione e spazio sociale. Muovendo dalla tensione moderna fra disincanto e reincantamento, i contributi raccolti interrogano la consonanza…
Dear colleagues, The editors of the Semiotics, Communication and Cognition series, Paul Cobley and Kalevi Kull, are delighted to announce the publication of two new books in the series. The first is Forms of Living by Jacques Fontanille, an expanded version of Formes de vie, translated with the help of Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou. The second is Semiotic Investigations by the late…
Di Leo, Jeffrey R., and Dinda L. Gorlée, eds. 2026. Late Peirce : The Life and Thought of Charles S. Peirce from 1900-1914. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003567615. This volume explores the later life and thought of Charles S. Peirce, a 15-year period that spans from 1900 until his death in 1914. It is the first volume…
Emanuele Fadda, Giuseppe Cosenza, 2026. Ferdinand de Saussure : Storia di una teoria del linguaggio. Rome : Carocci editore. 312 p. ISBN : 9788829035335. Le destin de Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) a été d’être surtout connu de son vivant comme indo-européaniste et d’avoir acquis une immense notoriété à titre posthume grâce à un ouvrage qu’il…
G. Paschalidis (ed), Semiotics in the Lifeworld. Proceedings of the 15th World Congress of IASS/AIS. Thessaloniki: IASS Publications & Hellenic Semiotics Society, 2026 [https://doi:10.24308/IASS-2022]https://DOI:10.24308/IASS-2022.
Leone, Massimo, Steven Umbrello (eds). 2026. Digitally Divided : The Impact of Technology on Belief and Societal Polarization. Springer Cham. This book offers a critical exploration of how digital technologies are reshaping religious belief, ethical frameworks, and social cohesion. As faith and ideology increasingly migrate to online platforms, the book examines how algorithm-driven content, echo…
Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the publication of two new books in the Semiotics, Communication and Cognition series. First, there is Volume 26 in the series, Situated, Historical, Embodied Semiosis by Paul Prior, Julie Hengst and Andrea Olinger. Second, comes The Semiotic Turn and Other Selected Essays, a collection of key texts by Paolo Fabbri edited by Gianfranco…
Bellentani, F. (2026). Faces and the city : an interdisciplinary approach to facial presence in urban space. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003464662 Faces and the City advances the understanding of the role of faces and face representations, their meanings and interpretations, in physical and digital urban space. This comprehensive study builds a typology of biological, represented and digital…
