#semiotician

[schmuck-archive]

the post literally just said “we should take antisemitism seriously”

[crofter]

@semiotician, 011. a university lecture hall during a class.

IT'S A LITTLE... THRILLING, ISN'T IT? THE CHASE, THE DECIPHERING, THE UNCOVERING OF EACH TRUTH. IT'S A MASKED MISSION, APPEARING TO BE OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF HER HEART: SCRAPBOOKS OF PRINTED PHOTOS FROM HER JOURNEYS ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY SCANNED AND ASSESSED BY THE PROFESSOR'S EYES BEFORE, SO SURELY THAT'S NOT THE REASON SHE'S HERE. AND OF COURSE, THE FACT THAT LARA HASN'T BEEN ABROAD IN, WELL... QUITE SOME TIME. WHAT WAS IT, LARA, A MONTH? PEARLS GRIND, MANICURED DIGITS A CHARCOAL BLACK WRAPPED AROUND CAFFEINE CUP, RECTANGULAR FRAMED GLASSES SITTING COMFORTABLY UPON THE BRIDGE OF HER NOSE. STUDENTS ERUPT WITH THEIR RAUCOUS CHATTER, BUSY BODIES BUMP AND RUN, AND WITHIN ALL THAT RACKET, SHE SLITHERS THROUGH.

" I HAVEN'T BEEN ANSWERING ANY OF YOUR EMAILS. OR YOUR CALLS. OR YOUR TEXTS. YOU'RE QUITE CLINGY THESE DAYS. " a beat of nonchalance in her gaze, that signature coy beam growing upon nude velvets. " IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO REMINISCE ON OUR LITTLE TRIP LAST YEAR, YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT IT. I'M NOT LOOKING FOR A DO OVER, and neither should you. "

[yourdisappointedarms]

“It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.” #umbertoecco #italian #novelist #philosopher #semiotician #culturalcritic #politicalandsocialcommentator #readafuckingbook #theislandofthedaybefore https://www.instagram.com/p/CEG2mCdhl4Q/?igshid=xkkf8q66pcq1

[yourdisappointedarms]

“Language is never innocent.” #rolandbarthes #frenchliterarytheorist #semiotician #philosopher #linguist #critic (at Olmsted Township)

[verocskakoschsartcorner]

R.i.P. “WE HAVE A LIMIT, A VERY DISCOURAGING, HUMILIATING LIMIT: DEATH.” Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 - 19 February 2016), Italian Semiotician, Essayist, Philosopher, Literary Critic and Novelist: The Name of the Rose, The Island of the Day Before and Foucault’s Pendulum. http://ift.tt/1POj2mC

[schriftarchitekt]

The language of Europe is translation.

Umberto Eco, semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

[lofidelica]

HOW TO BECOME A SEMIOTICIAN: A DECALOGUE

presented at Semiofest 2012

Massimo Leone, Department of Philosophy, University of Turin 1. You shall study semiotics; choosing a good university course with a good teacher; reading books, articles, essays; going back to the classics, avoiding compendiums, readers, and also most online materials: they are not good (for the moment); 2. You shall practice semiotics; initially through purposeless analysis; through interpretation for the sake of interpretation; annoy your friends with semiotics; 3. You shall befriend other semioticians; meeting them regularly not only on the web, but also in congresses, symposia, colloquia; remember to celebrate semio-festivities; 4. You shall not turn semiotics into a rhetoric; semiotics’ purpose is to help other people to understand meaning, not to convince them that you understand it better than them; 5. You shall not turn semiotics into magic; semiotics is a discipline, one should be disciplined in learning and in practicing it; 6. You shall not turn semiotics into religion; semiotics is only one out of a multitude of options; respect other disciplines and ask respect from them; 7. You shall not turn semiotics into science; let’s face it: semiotics is part of the humanities; thank god meaning will never be ruled by the laws of necessity; 8. You shall not turn semiotics into mystery; if nobody understands you but other semioticians, you are a failure; 9. You shall not turn semiotics into bar conversation; if everybody appreciates you except other semioticians, you are a failure too; 10. You shall not be worried that your mother doesn’t understand what you do; most people who do new things have skeptical mothers.

(photo from Tim Stock's presentation on Semiotics and Framing Cultural Insights)