John 20:17. Outside the empty tomb, Christ says to the Magdalene: “Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father.” A moving counterpart to the unbridled rage, sorrow, and fury of the Magdalene in Niccolo dell’Arca’s later “Lamentation” terracotta group in Bologna posted yesterday. Giotto here presents us with a superb surface organization of form, line (Follow the compositional lines – both real and implied), and color. So much so that it takes the viewer beyond the merely apparent, and outside the composition – outside the work – and suggests (gives) to the viewer a brilliant – perhaps first-ever – portrayal of yearning and its feared counterpart, rejection.

Giotto & The Invention of Yearning. More in ALT. #art #fresco #paintings #italy #easter #semiotics

I think #ALTTEXT is now used not just for accessibility but also for, like, #Darmok and Gilad at #Tanagra #STTNG like touch points to make sure everyone gets the joke. Who is doing our #Baidrillard #semiotics analysis on this?

I think #ALTTEXT is now used not just for accessibility but also for, like, #Darmok and Gilad at #Tanagra #STTNG like touch points to make sure everyone gets the joke. Who is doing our #Baidrillard #semiotics analysis on this?

Language for new ideas.
#code #semiotics #processing

Impressive. Watch the Iranian Lego videos.
They are definitely winning the propaganda war.
#Semiotics of War

How "No Kings" protests went ahead in countries with kings Anti-Trump organizers made deliberate adjustments to avoid confusion in countries that still have monarchs.

#Translation requires careful thought even within English

#Langsky #Linguistics #Semiotics

www.newsweek.com/anti-trump-n...

Umberto Eco

• Umberto Eco italiar idazle, filosofo eta pentsalari ospetsua izan zen. Italian Jaio zen eta mundu osoan ezaguna egin zen bere eleberri eta saiakera sakonei esker. #UmbertoEco #semiotics #filosofia

Roland Barthes

• Roland Barthes filosofo, literatura-kritikari eta semiologo frantsesa izan zen. 📚Cherbourgen jaio zen, eta bere haurtzaroa markatuta egon zen aitaren heriotzagatik. Barthesek DENA aztertzen zuen zeinu-sistema bat balitz bezala eta horregatik Semiotikan zentratu zen. #Barthes #semiotics

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Excerpt from Lacan Parle (1972)

"With great equanimity, lacan recovers from an assault by a disgruntled student"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aqG...

#PhilosopyOfLanguage #Semiotics #Hermeneutics
#JacquesLacan #Psychoanalysis #French #FilmTheory #Hermeneutics #PostStructuralism

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A photo of light pole overlooking red leaves. The background is a blue sky. A pole intersects the light pole 3/4ths of the way up, making light pole appear as a cross.

Symbolism at the walmart parking lot

#photography #red #semiotics

The post shows a delicate first-century Roman fresco of a seated woman in a diaphanous gown attentively pouring perfume from a small, fragile, single-handled, glass ampulla (a small pitcher) into a slender, cylindrical, alabastron from which the expensive perfume may be more easily dispensed and applied in smaller amounts. The text in the post states that “The art of fragrance carries with it powers of association that predate human memory and experience. It is the moving likeness of eternity.” Once released, fragrances - essences as ancient as the planet - evolve in their scent through the rise and fall of the notes of their formulations. Their fragrant compositions, therefore, incorporate time itself. Hence, the post text’s conclusion that fragrance is the “moving likeness of eternity.” The conclusion that perfume is “a moving likeness of eternity” was inspired by a passage in Plato’s Timaeus, 7, 37, about the creation of the universe and time.

Fragrance is the moving likeness of eternity. See ALT for more #art #creativity #design #fashion #fragrance #fragrancefoundationuk #perfume #semiotics

Indexicality - Wikipedia

TIL:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexic...

In #semiotics, #linguistics, #anthropology, and #philosophy of language #indexicality is the phenomenon of a sign pointing to some element in the context in which it occurs. A sign that signifies #indexically is called an index or, in philosophy an #indexical.

A quote from the American philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce: “In contemplating a painting, there is a moment when we lose the consciousness that it is not the thing, the distinction of the real and the copy disappears, and it is for the moment a pure dream.” Art is a compositional bond of both the material and the immaterial, of the real and the semiotic. Here, among other things, Peirce touches upon a phenomenon that most every viewer of a painting has experienced: the toggling between, first, the observation of a subject and, second, the observation of a painting comprised of all the elements that constitute a painting: brush-strokes, color, outline, form, and the like. To illustrate the point, Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” accompanies the post.

Art is a compositional bond of the material and the immaterial - the real and the semiotic. See ALT. #art #painting #philosophy #psychology #semiotics

A quote from the American philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce: “In contemplating a painting, there is a moment when we lose the consciousness that it is not the thing, the distinction of the real and the copy disappears, and it is for the moment a pure dream.” Art is a compositional bond of both the material and the immaterial, of the real and the semiotic. Here, among other things, Peirce touches upon a phenomenon that most every viewer of a painting has experienced: the toggling between, first, the observation of a subject and, second, the observation of a painting comprised of all the elements that constitute a painting: brush-strokes, color, outline, form, and the like. To illustrate the point, Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” accompanies the post.

Art is a compositional bond of the material and the immaterial - the real and the semiotic. See ALT. #art #painting #philosophy #psychology #semiotics

📚 New in [LAT-STS Library]

“Race Beyond Vision” by Márcio N. de Abreu challenges the visuocentric paradigm, showing how racial perception emerges through symbolic, affective, and socially mediated processes.👁️

🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#CriticalRaceTheory #DisabilityStudies #Semiotics

Van Gogh and the Meaning of Yellow

Some #semiotics of yellow: Van Gogh & Others
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/a...

From a conversation with ChatGPT on Roland Barthes death.

Book cover Lauren Binet ‘The Seventh Function of Language’

Turns out that #ChatGPT borrowed heavily from a novel by Laurent Binet (and probably some reviews) for the anecdote. Binet’s book is called ‘The Seventh Function of Language’. I had never heard of it and ordered it in a bookshop. Promises to be a good read […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Time for another #BookShelfie.
Feel free to ask questions
#phenomenology #semiotics #books

⚠️ Medium Crisis at Numinoise Studio — Preparing GLOWING ERROR STATES There is a certain kind of silence that only appears after too much sound. At Numinoise Studio, that silence has been rare lately. The studio — run by the ever-ambitious TEDDY and the clinically precise CAT — is currently deep in preparations for their debut album: GLOWING ERROR STATES What began as an exploration of hyper-optimized harmonics and emotional compression artifacts has escalated into what the ~NU relations community now carefully refers to as a “temporary challenging situation.” The Overproduction Phase TEDDY, in his white jogging suit and permanently overcommitted enthusiasm, has recently taken “final mastering” to metaphysical levels.

😺🐻🐰 #satire #humor #parody #cult #philosophy #music #audiotechnology #audiotech #surreal #symbolics #semiotics #cat #cats #teddy #teddies #art #artificialintelligence

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Segment on the four stages of the sign-order from the Wikipedia on Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Beaudrillard

I’d forgotten about this book:
Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Beaudrillard.
#PhilSky #booksky #semiotics #philosophy
On the corruption of signals.

in a world where theres an approximately equal distribution of anthropomorphic animals like in Zootopia, what would they use in place of a skull to be a symbol for death?

#zootopia #furry #symbol #semiotics

Mouton d'Or 2025 graphic on Berlin blue background with oversized quotation marks from the De Gruyter Brill logo. On the left it shows a Semiotica journal cover with an open access icon. On the right the name of the author, Yunhee Lee, and the title of the winning paper: "The role of sentiment, aesthetic behavior, and narrative semiosis in the identification of selfhood from Peirce's semiotic perspective."

You can read Yunhee Lee’s award-winning article in open access on our website:
🔓 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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#Linguistics #Semiotics

Mouton d'Or 2025 graphic on Berlin blue background with oversized quotation marks from the De Gruyter Brill logo. A large quote reads: “The focus on the self as a semiotic agent in the highly technologized world provides a robust conceptual foundation for rethinking narrative communication in the 21st century through a Peircean lens.” Underneath in smaller letters the attibution reads "Donna West, Ludmila Lacková, José Enrique Finol (Jury, Mouton d’Or 2025)".

The jury comprising Donna West (SUNY Cortland @sunyofficial.bsky.social), Ľudmila Lacková (@charlesuni.cuni.cz) and José Enrique Finol (University of Zulia) praised the paper for “introducing a non-traditional yet compelling approach by applying Peircean #semiotics to narrative-based theories.”

It must be a very interesting challenge:

How to convey maximally useful information to those speeding by at 100+kph,

Telling kids in the back to shut up and stop hitting their sibling,

All while trying not to crash.

#Semiotics

新装版　パースの記号学 - 株式会社　勁草書房 難解なパース理論を理解するための決定版。全編新組でより読み易くなった新装版。 米盛　裕二 著

#Peirce #semiotics #semeiotics
米盛 裕二. (2026). 新装版 パースの記号学. 勁草書房. www.keisoshobo.co.jp/book/b101585...