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…