New Book: Leone, Massimo and Pezzini, Isabella, eds. 2013. Semiotics of Subjectivities [in English and Italian]; contributions by Umberto Eco, Victor Stoichita, Massimo Leone, Eero Tarasti, etc. Rome: Aracne. ISNN: 9788854863293. Publisher’s address: http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/catalogo/area/scienze-storiche-filosofiche-pedagogiche-e-psicologiche/9788854863293-detail.html Price: 30,00 Euros Short description: essays on the semiotics of subjectivity, with specific attention to its visual representations. A PDF of presentation: Leone &…

“Peirce and Biosemiotics: A Guess at the Riddle of Life” (Springer) Edited by Vinicius romanini and Eliseo Fernández Short description: This volume discusses the importance of Peirce´s philosophy and theory of signs to the development of Biosemiotics, the science that studies the deep interrelation between meaning and life. Peirce considered semeiotic as a general logic…

How can semiotics help us understand subjectivity? The question of subjectivity concerns the close and the distant, the self and the other, the other from self, and the other of self. It is thus the question connected to the question of the sign. It calls for a semiotic approach because the self is itself a…

Interdiscipline et arts du spectacle vivant Sous la direction d’André Helbo, Catherine Bouko et Élodie Verlinden Le concept d’interdiscipline, mobilisé habituellement dans les sciences de la communication, trouve dans le champ du spectacle vivant un nouvel écho. Les recherches en arts du spectacle connaissent actuellement une mutation sans précédent, sous l’impulsion d’un dialogue qui convoque des modèles de décloisonnement. Une…