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The Semiotic Diaries
Readings of the Ordinary
Semiotic readings of the ordinary, and the making of SemioSnap. Each diary takes one everyday thing (a painting, an object, a place, a word) and shows how much meaning it quietly carries.
The journal
A new reading appears every Sunday on Substack, and everything is free. The journal has two sections: Diaries, readings of the ordinary, and The Snap, the ideas behind SemioSnap and its book. One free subscription receives both.
The first entry: Fingers in the pie, on Locard's "every contact leaves a trace", Derrida's Le toucher, and the traces an editor leaves in a daily word puzzle.
Many entries are written in two voices: the author's, and an AI's, set apart in neon italic.
The first print volume gathers the Diaries, in the Phenomenon Books design.