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…
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
