semiotics

There's a high-rent word for the study of this subject, "semiotics," or the use of symbols — of which "semantics," the meaning of words, is a part. But you don't need a Ph.D. in semiotics to know when you're being bamboozled. Chan Lowe is the deputy editorial page editor of The Eagle and a syndicated ...

It's true that everything in Westworld is code—artificial, semiotic, programmed, significant. In the first season, the audience was introduced to an adult playground, populated with fleshy androids designed for human gratification. As the hosts gained sentience and found a path to liberation, they became ...

This year's Igue Festival in Benin City, the Edo State capital, is to boosted with the hosting of a second-leg travelling art exhibition, workshop, performance art and presentation of art journal in the ancient city in December. The project, which theme is: Benin iconography/semiotics: Uhunmwen whe ...

New York-based painter Sarah Morris says her Sawdust and Tinsel expo explores the "semiotics of capital and power structures" and "unapologetic appropriation of corporate iconography, Warholian pop and minimalist seriality." Despite the dire retro jargon, her work is lively and engaging. A keen ...

Academics have long studied the hypotheses, challenges and semiotic models of Ferdinand de Saussure (a French philosopher and linguist ... of cultural myths and values, and analysis of semiotics within the frame of feeling, fact and imagination), Michel Foucault (a social theorist of knowledge, power and ...

“I wanna make something like that,” Evan Stephens Hall of Pinegrove tells Pitchfork, referencing The Sound and the Fury, Ulysses and The Crying of Lot 49 “— a love album about semiotics, or a semiotics album about love.” Harmless, it seems. His “&” EP investigates a lone character, the ampersand, ...

The itinerary of BJP national president Amit Shah, who will be on a two-day visit to Mysuru–Chamarajanagar–Mandya–Ramanagaram belt in Old Mysore region from Friday, has two significant appointments besides a series of meetings with party functionaries and visits to mutts and major temples.

It is one of those days you don't know how best to broach a topic. It is particularly so in a something as tacky as defecation. One day Hardball shall interrogate this matter of excrement; this singular equalizer of all men, nay all animals. Pooing knows no tribe or race, gender or class … you would simply be in ...

“Vital Signs” reflects Tilahun's multidisciplinary practice in sculptural installation, video art, drawing, and painting, linked by consistent semiotic concerns. At the heart of his work are traces of both the cutting edge and the long arc of history. “Vital Signs,” which closes March 11, was curated by Meskerem ...

Distant trumpets haunt the instrumentation of this song, as the vocals linger through soft echo effects. “Where the Shadows Go” instrumentally effects a conversation with a ghost, vocals and distant brass instruments in a conversational call and response—one language semiotic, the other otherworldly.

I believe it was done as a cynical gambit when it was politically expedient, as a way to paint the protesting demographic as “the other,” to put the protesters at the center of this weird semiotic cluster of European, Jewish, American, gay, godless, all the bad things. In order to make that stick, Russia, with its ...

Contemporary digital devices are particularly focused not on their utilitarian or semiotic value, but rather on user experience (UX). Such devices facilitate a variety of experiences, such as conversing with artificial intelligence, entering virtual reality with VR, or overlaying the virtual on top of reality with AR.

Brand design agency Vault49 unveils its design for limited edition Baileys Strawberries & Cream just in time for Valentine's Day. The New York agency used a design approach that married the indulgent flavor semiotics of strawberries and cream with widely loved seasonal cues of spring, bringing Baileys to the front of the ...

Simply put, semiotics is the study of meaning-making. This field focuses mostly on signs and symbols and what they communicate to the outside world. We all understand that a red hand means “stop,” a skull and crossbones means “danger” and a heart symbol means “love.” Semiotics examines how these ...

Soapbox is a weekly series delivering a curated set of lectures, talks and symposia concerning contemporary themes but explored through the archives of lectures past and present. With the plethora of lectures, talks, symposia and panels occurring world wide on a daily basis, how can we begin to keep up ...

“The statement at the moment is so waves, as hair's own no-makeup look,” he continues. “It's saying, 'Look, I'm so perfect I don't even have to try.' There is a uniformity to it, and the goal is somewhat perfection. Not eclecticism, not individuality.” How did we get there? How did we reach peak coif semiotics?

Andrew Robinson (God and the World of Signs) cannot prove that C.S. Peirce drew inspiration for his semiotic pattern of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness from Trinitarian theology. But Robinson is struck by the parallels between Peircean semiotics and Trinitarian theology. For starters, he points to ...

As part of its effort to grow its female readership, the publisher started conducting research with semiotics and language analysis research firm Ipsos Connect last June. This research, led by a global team of 16 women across The Economist's marketing, advertising, product and editorial departments, ...

Semiotic violence can take the form of sexualized images or sexist language designed to make women appear incompetent or incapable of holding a political position. Though violence and harassment against women in politics is not a new phenomenon, Krook pointed out that it is beginning to draw the ...

So here's an attempt at a semiotic analysis of Oscars 2018. The thought preying on the Academy's mind this year seems to have been “inclusion”. Introducing the award for production design, Lupita Nyong'o (of Kenyan stock) and Kumail Nanjiani (Pakistan) made a sharp appeal on behalf of “dreamers”, ...