"I'm finding it hard to introduce myself, actually, because the whole idea of social introductions is so problematized," says one of the hipster semioticians. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)
Because of course, while fake documentaries are largely scripted, staged, and performed, as is true for all of contemporary "reality" programming, there is also, always, a tiny bit or residue or trace of the actual person, place, or conversation what semioticians call the indexical also caught in every single faked frame. ❋ Alexandra Juhasz (2010)
The subtext of bumper stickers is best left to social psychologists and cultural semioticians, but what is bracketed out of their meaning is frequently as important as what appears on them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But I imagine semioticians would much rather not be associated with Robert Langdon. ❋ Unknown (2009)
English majors and media semioticians must be cursing all the opportunities for expert witness consulting fees this decision has cost them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If I ever write such a paper, it will use the masterly work of Owen Barfield (summarized for laymen in Poetic Diction) as a springboard, and some aspects of information theory as engines, and I have a shrewd idea that the particular subject I have in mind contains enough thermonuclear explosive to blow half the ideas of the semioticians to kingdom come. ❋ Superversive (2007)
At first I thought semioticians might be angry that Brown apparently had never heard of their field, but maybe they're happy to not be associated with him. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sociologists, anthropologists and semioticians have absorbed more than the advisable limit of cathode rays trying to parse the lexicon of popular television in Brazil. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Whereas his fellow semioticians Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan were wilfully elitist and obscure, Eco gave his field an approachable face with raffish newspaper think-pieces and jargon-free monographs on topics ranging from medieval aesthetics to the mass media. ❋ Unknown (2007)
When I wrote on an earlier post that campaign managers ought to hire anthropologists and semioticians in order to deconstruct their social networking constituencies, I was not being academic. ❋ Sifry, Micah L. (2007)
Today, Josh Marshall notes: ...there's just nothing more precious than seeing the faux-populist poseur Post editorial writers standing tough against an entrenched "establishment" of thirty-something, tenure-desperate semioticians and lit geeks in defense of "mainstream American values", a well of mores and beliefs with which the Post is no doubt deeply in touch. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I never read Derrida (though I do have the Scritti Politti song on record) but I did get through a lot of structuralists and semioticians doing film studies at uni. ❋ Unknown (2004)
That three-fold complex sign, its object, and interpretation is the key idea that semioticians play with. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Assad would be more than a match for any cabal of post-structuralists and semioticians. ❋ Unknown (2002)
It is also worth noting that he anticipated the modern preoccupation of semioticians and literary critics with popular culture. ❋ Unknown (1992)
