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Cradle to Coffin: A Semiotic Model of Life and Death
A Semiotic Model of Life and Death The mysteries of life and death are the bookends of our lives; as a result we find their influence through every society and culture. ‘The symbols of death say...
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Why are we taking the super out of the supernatural stories: another...
Why are we taking the super out of the supernatural stories: is this just another postmodern symptom? There has long been a casus belli of modernism and postmodernism to try to explain the religious,...
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The Semiotics of Cutlery: Eating food symbolically off course.
The Semiotics of Cutlery: A Dinner Table conversation over 8 Courses 1. Appetizer Hunger is a universal human drive. Every day, we wake to rumbles with the physiological necessity to eat....
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Eating yourself: We consume identity through food?
Food for thought It was one of the pioneers of French gastronomy writing, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, who penned the now famous observation: ‘Tell me what kind of food you eat, and I will tell you...
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Some anthropological perspectives on eating: east or west
Some anthropological perspectives on eating: east or west You are what you don’t eat. Food is central to our sense of individual and social identity. We consume our identities through the food...
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Is Popular Culture influencing our perception of Justice?
Why write about Justice? Looking back, Justice and Injustice have made frequent headlines over 2014, in fact for most of the last decade. Whilst I’m not in the legal profession, I feel qualified to...
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Vigilantism and Justice in modern society: a popular culture analysis
Vigilantism and Justice in modern society The last few years haven’t been good for law-enforcement agencies in Western countries. There are many examples of both police and public failures of trust....
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Have we become the White Rabbit? The experience of Time in the Postmodern Era
Have we become the White Rabbit? The experience of Time in the Postmodern Era 1. Talking to the hands There has been a spate of articles about time recently, many of which seek to encapsulate...
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Is there a modern mythology of immortality or is it that some stories never die?
What is our continuing fascination with immortality? Increasingly there are new films, TV series and books that have living-forever as a central theme. In an increasingly secular world, stories and...
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The Semiotics of Ageing in Advertising: Our changing discussion on age
“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in...
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