“To tune truly in to the frequency of truth, theo-semioticians need a sound system; prayer as your subwoofer, fasting as your equalizer,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Codes and semiotic conventions are a challenge for human communication, since they seal off people with a privacy protection label and make… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“There is no reason to assume that the unceasing forward march of techne will not eventually achieve a mimesis which replaces a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material.… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are, somewhere, the deep impulse which generates semiosis, And yet we recognize ourselves only as semiosis in progress, signifying systems… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This book has two determinants: on the one hand, an ideological critique of the language of so-called mass culture; on the other,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
