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  • 'Semiotic' here refers to a process of communication by signs that is not yet reduced to regularity and stability; what 'counts' in this stage is something more fluid.

    Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 1: Modernism and the Scholastic Revival 2005

  • Semiotic Milieu: A fictive milieu may be mimetic in part because a writer has drawn directly on their own experiential milieu, but much of the collage of staging and dressing will likely be clipped from sources or created from whole cloth.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Anti-Semiotic talk can be hounded by Eisenhower and other veterans, since they would have seen the camps first hand.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » And now, Gentlemen, down to business. 2010

  • WAYNE: The author of Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, who was heavily criticized by Gayatri Spivak, among others, for her ethnocentric feminist theory!

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • WAYNE: The author of Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, who was heavily criticized by Gayatri Spivak, among others, for her ethnocentric feminist theory!

    PARTY TIME 2010

  • Semiotic Milieu: A fictive milieu may be mimetic in part because a writer has drawn directly on their own experiential milieu, but much of the collage of staging and dressing will likely be clipped from sources or created from whole cloth.

    Notes on Worldscape Hal Duncan 2009

  • Tying into that is the idea of 'Semiotic Domains', a topic upon which I have been enlightened by a chapter in the 'The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology', edited by Salem and Zimmerman, though the chapter is not theirs.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Ben Abraham 2008

  • Tying into that is the idea of 'Semiotic Domains', a topic upon which I have been enlightened by a chapter in the 'The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology', edited by Salem and Zimmerman, though the chapter is not theirs.

    2 months of catchup! Ben Abraham 2008

  • Fabio Fernandes, our co-editor here at Fantasy Book Critic has just published another story in Everyday Weirdness: "Semiotic Smoke"

    Flash News: FBC's co-editor Fabio Fernandes publishes another story Liviu 2009

  • Semiotic or semiotics: paraphrasing here from the Greek semeiotikos observant of signs, from semeiousthai to interpret signs, from semeion sign; akin to Greek semu sign - more at SEMANTIC: a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals esp. with their function in both artifically constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

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