Fictional Decoders
What can we learn from the methods of fictional semiotician-esque characters?
Decoder
Exploring fictional semiotician-esque action as depicted in our favorite books, movies, TV shows, and comics.
Shutter Island & Fractured
"Exploring delusional semiotics encourages us to question our own interpretative processes…"
The Name of the Rose
"Baskerville is obsessed with the meaning of things, their naming, our inevitable world of signs."
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"Our job is: life, the universe, and everything."
One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Semiotic analysis can cause surprise — provoking tears of joy! Or sorrow!"
My Family and Other Animals
"There's no reason ever to be bored; there's always something to decode."
Babylon Berlin
"Charlotte approaches her investigations not only rationally, but with empathy and emotion."
Le Garage Hermétique
Call this sort of thing: narrative kintsugi — i.e., breaking, then making visible repairs to one's story.
