Making Sense
"Semiotics is like the 'Matrix' — it has its own plans for you, no matter what you may have intended."
Q&A
Deep dives with interesting people.
Making Sense
"Semiotics may be limiting itself to solving bourgeois problems."
Making Sense
"Cycling through analytical modes rapidly and productively is tricky stuff."
Making Sense
"It’s like a kind of jazz anthropology."
Making Sense
"Watching, listening, seeing, feeling, multiplying the stimuli…"
Making Sense
"Closing the gap between what brands think they are communicating and what they’re actually communicating."
Making Sense
"The thrill when it all comes together is incomparable."
Making Sense
"You can think deeply about seemingly silly things, and derive meaning from them belied by their simplicity."
Making Sense
"You have to understand the situation first and then decide which tools to use."
Making Sense
"A purely analytical approach can't answer the question of what and where to analyze."
Making Sense
Interviews with semioticians from around the world.
The Art of Decay
In castoff objects, she finds beauty and truth.
Back to Utopia
Can the antidote to neoliberal triumphalism be found in science fiction?
Seth’s Dominion
"I am still trying to approach my work with the same intentions I had as a child."