Dust off your semiotic analysis hats and take a look at these images of bloggers.

semiotics moves to wisconsin

Racism. sexism, misogyny: marketing. Spurious arguments even in context.

Sometimes the seemingly simple are rich semiotic texts.

Maluszynski photographs Lost Wages carpets as "odd patterns that define particular places.” Maluszynski plans to point his lens at another smothering of American kitsch: “I have started shooting motel bedspreads; it’s a great excuse to go road-tripping.” And an opportunity for a diss in semiotics.

Optimistic photo- and voice essay on how to see.

"Is there any more interesting way to think about the topic than the loose and impressionistic manner that it is currently framed?" Of course there is. And the doscussion is just getting started.

"slow viewing of a movie – Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God. " S/Z comes to the movie screen. Hadn't thought of how well DVD and random access support this kind of viewing - but that's because I don't teach film.

That we react to them is telling. That we work to articulate a response to them is even more telling. Statement: http://www.brandejs.ca/portfolio/Genpets/What

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"Uses and forms of writing have undergone profound changes over the last decades, which calls for a social, pedagogical, and semiotic explanation."

Graham Rawle's novel Woman's World, just out in the United States from Counterpoint,

Basic intro to the field, with focus on Saussure rather than Kress. Discusses use of semiotics for designers.

First half of the text: the intro without the applied essays.