Reading Time: 6 minutesAndrew Mark Creighton I am a big Jonathan Richman fan, and I’ve listened to his music continuously since I first heard the Modern Lovers’ recording of Road Runner when I was a teen. His music (along with the Modern Lovers) feels very sincere, rugged, or even unrefined. Listening to Richman feels like listening to a […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutesKarmen-Eliise Kiidron Ma pole kunagi tahtnud õpetajaks saada. Samas on aga haridus mulle alati oluline olnud, kas siis lihtsalt puhtast õpihimust või isegi (üli)õpilaste õiguste eest seistes. Semiootikatudengina on mulle palju huvi pakkunud meie transmeedia rühma töö. See on ütlemata põnev, kuidas film võib saada oluliseks osaks õppeprotsessis. Nii on transmeedia rühm loonud juba õppematerjale […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesBy Shion Yokoo-Ruttas Last September, I found myself spontaneously being on stage, taking part in a dance audition for an upcoming performance project. I did not aim nor obtain the position I auditioned for since the project looked for a dance coach, preferably without any previous relation to performing arts as an art form. Nevertheless, […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutesTake a stroll through the world of animal phenomenology and Jesper Hoffmeyer’s biosemiotics
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Reading Time: 16 minutesInterviewed by Thorolf van Walsum Though it is a pattern familiar to all those who have observed the development of many a young man, I account for my interest in Biosemiotics by placing it first in the context of worldly wonder. While other greenling spirits of the human sort have sought their existence’s fortunes on […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutesUmwelt Poems “Should we not learn the lesson that, for example, the woods, which poets praise as the human being’s loveliest abode, is hardly grasped in its true meaning if we relate it only to ourselves?” — Jakob von Uexküll, The biosemiotic project of articulating structures of sympathy between humans and non-humans is, in some […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutesSiiri Tarrikas Semiootika sügiskool on alati olnud üks tudengite oodatumaid sündmusi, sest see pakub ainulaadset võimalust tudengitel, õppejõududel, praktikutel, vilistlastel ja kõigil niisama huvilistel kokku tulla ning pingevabalt meeldivas seltskonnas huvitavatel teemadel arutleda. Semiootika sügis(kevad)kool tuli sel aastal teisiti ja seda mitte ainult ajastuse poolest. See toimus naljapäeval (1. aprillil 2023) Tartu Lodjakojas ning teemaks […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThis summer, the University of Tartu’s International Summer University will host two semiotics courses, Juri Lotman: A Basic Introduction and Contemporary Applications, and Semiotics, Pop Culture, Animals and the Environment. Both will be great opportunities to expand your semiotic knowledge while visiting one of the field’s leading centres. However, hurry, as the application deadline is 30 April 2023! Some […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Struggles of a Wanna-be Tartuvian Semiotician – Blog entry #38 A Llama Among Alpacas After hours, days, even weeks of hard work, I was waiting with googly eyes in front of my laptop screen for a response about my submitted masterpiece. A beautiful work, enticing and intricately structured. Endearing words were expected, but I […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes(English language CFP below) Kaaskirjade saatmise üleskutse “Hortus Semioticuse” erinumbri jaoks (EST PDF) Nagu väitis Hollandi sotsioloog Frederik L. Polak (1972), ühiskond ilma positiivse tulevikunägemuseta viitab hääbuvale ühiskonnale. Kuigi Polaki 20. sajandi keskpaigale keskendunud töö kontekst on ainulaadne, omades suuresti negatiivseid tulevikukujutlusi (Hicks 2004), ei saa globaliseerumise ja kiire tehnoloogilise arengu kontekstis ülehinnata mitmekesiste tulevike uurimise […]
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