In principio, the schematizing semiotician must encompass him, her-, or themself with a great, firm dome of ignorance. We must un-know whatever we may know about the topic. The schema is a void, but a fecund void, teeming with possibility — unseen forces the patterns of which wait to be charted.

A selection from a series of posts — originally published by our sister website, HILOBROW — attempting to depict the intellectual and emotional highs and lows of developing a semiotic schema.