Session: Semiotics & Politics
A session exploring the ways semioticians can engage with politics and ideology.
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 include The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the family activities guide Unbored. 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.
A session exploring the ways semioticians can engage with politics and ideology.
Call this sort of thing: narrative kintsugi — i.e., breaking, then making visible repairs to one's story.
A session dedicated to the ethics of semiotics work.
A session devoted to the science of semiotic analysis.
A session devoted to semiotics (in, of and on) the body.