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The CODE-X series catalogs a vast codex of source codes (aka “signs”) extracted from past audits.
The object of study in semiotics is not the signs but rather a general theory of signification; the goal of each “audit” is to build a model demonstrating how meaning is produced and received within a category or cultural territory. Signs on their own, therefore, only become truly revelatory and useful once we’ve sorted them into thematic complexes, and the complexes into codes, and the codes into a meaning map. We call this process “thick description”; the Code-X series is thin description.
“REBEL TRIBE” NORM: When you reject civilization, you’ll need a tightly-knit band of fellow malcontents to help out.
“REBEL TRIBE” FORMS: Groups of individuals depicted as unlike mainstream society, yet in some way like one another. Language indicating the group’s deep bonds: e.g., “Family,” “Tribe,” “Cult.”