Semiotics General concepts Sign (relation relational complex) Code Confabulation Connotation / Denotation Encoding / Decoding Lexical Modality Representation Salience Semiosis Semiosphere Semiotic elements and sign classes Umwelt Value Fields Biosemiotics Cognitive semiotics Computational semiotics Literary semiotics Semiotics of culture Methods Commutation test Paradigmatic analysis Syntagmatic analysis Semioticians Mikhail... Read full biography of Umberto Eco →
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as... →
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History... →
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute... →
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is... →
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact... →
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman... →
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Translation is the art of failure.
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and... →
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not... →
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher... →
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it... →
Semiotics General concepts Sign (relation relational complex) Code Confabulation Connotation / Denotation Encoding / Decoding Lexical Modality Representation Salience Semiosis Semiosphere Semiotic elements and sign classes Umwelt Value Fields Biosemiotics Cognitive semiotics Computational semiotics Literary semiotics Semiotics of culture Methods Commutation test Paradigmatic analysis Syntagmatic analysis Semioticians Mikhail...