“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
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
I believe in the semiotics of clothes. They send a message about how the world perceives us. For me it goes beyond… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles.… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within… — Lidia Yuknavitch 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
“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
