Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the book presentation of Sphere of Understanding: Tartu Dialogues with Semioticians, published by De Gruyter in the “Semiotics, Communication and Cognition” series. The event will take place online on 12 May 2025, from 6PM to 5PM (Paris time)/ 7PM to 8PM (Tartu time)/ 5PM to 6PM (London time)/ 12PM…
Mohamed BERNOUSSI. Le chercheur modèle. Cinq étapes clefs de la carrière d’Umberto Eco. Éditions Capital, 2025. Réunir dans un ouvrage pratique et détaillé les conseils et les règles suivis par Umberto Eco pour réussir un travail de recherche, mais surtout donner des exemples d’illustration à travers les propres recherches menées par Umberto Eco depuis son…
Massimo Leone (a cura di). Il volto infinito. Torino: FACETS Digital Press, 2025. (Open Access – https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/3c4b41cb-45a7-4372-a049-cfde600429c1/Massimo%20LEONE%202025%20-%20Il%20volto%20infinito%20-%20PDF%20editoriale_compressed.pdf). Il volto infinito offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the face in contemporary digital societies, combining perspectives from semiotics, philosophy, aesthetics, and media studies. Emerging from the ERC-funded FACETS project, this volume analyzes the transformations of the face in…
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…
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…
