New Book: Mediation and Immediacy. A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion

Edited by: Jenny Ponzo, Robert A. Yelle,  and Massimo Leone Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality. While many traditions hold out the promise of immediate access to…

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New Book: Meaning-Making in Extended Reality. Federico Biggio, Victoria Dos Santos, Gianmarco Thierry Giuliana

A cura di Federico Biggio, Victoria Dos Santos, Gianmarco Thierry Giuliana Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality are at the center of the contemporary media scenario and the latest expressions of digital culture. These different yet alike technologies are innovating and successfully used in very different fields such as entertainment, rehabilitation, professional training, art and urban design. However, these…

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Call for papers: Lexia, 39-40, “Heritage and the City”

HERITAGE AND THE CITY – Semiotics and Politics of Cultural Memory in Urban Spaces Guest Editors: Francesco Mazzucchelli (University of Bologna), Maria Rosaria Vitale (University of Catania), Massimo Leone (University of Turin/University of Shanghai) This Special Issue of Lexia aims at bringing together articles that critically reflect, from a semiotic angle, on the relation between…

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New Issue: Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics, Volume 5, Issue 2

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Volume 5, Issue 2  (2019) of Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics, the online, open  access journal of the Hellenic Semiotic Society. This issue is devoted  to “Semiotics of Monuments: Politics & Form from the 20th to the 21st  century”’, edited by Lia Yoka and Federico Bellentani. The…

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Call for papers: Revista DeSignis, “Mediatización. Teorías y prácticas”

DeSignis retoma el debate iniciado con el numero Semiosis Social. La Semiotica de Eliseo Veron o sobre las condiciones de la mediatización, fenómeno societal ligado estrechamente a las sociedades de hiperproduccion e hiperconsumo mediático y las intersecciones que se producen con otros campos disciplinarios y afines a la semiótica. Desde hace al menos tres décadas…

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Call for papers: Revista DeSignis, “Semiosis y feminismos. Teorías feministas y del discurso: ensamblajes e intersecciones”

DeSignis retoma un debate iniciado hace diez años con el n°12 Traducción/Género/Poscolonialismo (2008) al que siguió el n°16 Cuerpo(s). Sexos, sentidos, semiosis (2010) a cargo de María Eugenia Olavarria, y el pionero n°19 Queers Studies. Semióticas y políticas de género (2012). DeSignis continúa la serie ‘Intersecciones’ estudiando los procesos de producción de conocimiento y de…

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Call for papers: special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics

Call for Papers Semiotics of political communication Special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics Editor: Gregory Paschalidis In the last few decades the field of political communication is characterized by an increasing degree of pluralization and fluidity. The large-scale crisis of long-established political agents (e.g. traditional political parties, the European Union) has proceeded together…

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Call for papers: Revista DeSignis, “Semióticas cognitivas. Nuevos paradigmas”

Call for papers del 1° marzo 2020 al 30 junio 2020 “Semióticas cognitivas. Nuevos paradigmas” Serie Intersecciones Fecha edición designisonline 2021 ; edición papel UNR Ediciones Coordinado por Asunción López Varela (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) y María Lucia Santaella (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Sao Paulo) con la colaboración de Luis Martínez Falero (Universidad Complutense de…

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Call for papers: Revista DeSignis, “El rostro digital latinoamericano”

Call for papers ‘El rostro digital latinoamericano’ Número enmarcado en el ERC Consolidator Grant Project ERC-2018-COG 816640: FACETS: Face Aesthetics in Contemporary E-Technological Societies Serie Intersecciones Coordinación Massimo Leone (Università di Torino, Shanghái University) massimo.leone@unito.itCristina Voto (Università di Torino, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero) crivoto@gmail.comCon la colaboración de José Enrique Finol (Universidad del Zulia)…

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