Josh Glenn
Josh Glenn is a Kingston (NY)-based consulting semiotician. He is cofounder of the consultancy Semiovox, editor of the websites SEMIOVOX and HILOBROW, and founding editor of The MIT Press's proto-sf RADIUM AGE series. He is an adjunct instructor at RISD and convenor of the monthly online Semiofest Sessions. His books (as writer and/or editor) include The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, the family activities guide Unbored, and the 2025 anthology Before Superman: Superhumans of the Radium Age. In the ’90s, Josh published the intellectual zine/journal Hermenaut; in the 2000s, he was a founding staffer and columnist for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section.
Session: Fictional Decoders
On September 27th, a session exploring favorite decoders from literature, movies, TV, and more…
Mr. Toad
"The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr. Toad!"
Session: Liminality Post-Porto (II)
A session — the second of two — building on May's LIMINALITY-themed Semiofest in Porto.
Session: Liminality Post-Porto (I)
A session — the first of two — building on May's LIMINALITY-themed Semiofest conference in Porto.
Session: Semiotics & Politics
A session exploring the ways semioticians can engage with politics and ideology.
Le Garage Hermétique
Call this sort of thing: narrative kintsugi — i.e., breaking, then making visible repairs to one's story.
Session: Semiotics & Ethics
A session dedicated to the ethics of semiotics work.
