The Signifying Nature of the Theatrical Performance as a Process of Communication and Representation by Ivaylo Alexandrov
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Antonin Artaud, under the influence of his own ideas for radical theatricalisation of the world as a “theatre of cruelty”, proclaimed the idea for the ability of the stage to communicate its own unique language.
Social Food: a Semioethic Perspective on Foodism and New Media by Raffaella Scelzi and Loredana La Fortuna
While Bronislaw Malinowski maintained that sexuality is the basis of social structure, his pupil, instead, Audrey Richards asserted that food is the real basis of human relationships. To support this idea, from an anthropological perspective, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Mary Douglas would seem to confirm the cultural and social importance of food.
In Memoriam Solomon Marcus by Nicoleta Popa Blanariu
In the semioticians’ community, the spring of 2016 has come as mournful as, perhaps, never before. Several weeks ago, Umberto Eco died, and today, only days after his 91st anniversary, Solomon Marcus.