Bleach
"Our work does not begin and end with the analysis of signs."
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
My Family and Other Animals
"There's no reason ever to be bored; there's always something to decode."
Rope
Theory and practice can be worlds apart.
Six Feet Under
What is life?
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.
Kosmos
"The semiosphere seductively lurks just out of our reach."
The Wonder
How to marshal myth, meaning, and embodied imagination…
Priestdaddy
"The mind’s eye and the reasoning faculty hovering dually at all times…"
The Giver
"The themes we find can feel fleeting and unsteady — until we name them."
Lessons in Chemistry
"Cooking is not an exact science." Neither is semiotics.
Disruptive Tech
Rejecting the norms and forms that other (non-British) technology makers take for granted.
Eccentric Chic
Britain’s best and brightest are warped — in fascinating ways.
Pattern Recognition
She has no way of knowing how she knows.