Tag Archives: Metaphors

Culture Decanted September 13

Cradle to Coffin: A Semiotic Model of Life and Death

There is nothing that influences human behavour as strongly as the power of life and death. It is possible to create a semiotic model that conceptualize how we create meaning on the journey from the womb to the grave.

Semiotics of the Doppelganger July 14

The Semiotics of the Doppelgänger: the Double in Popular Culture

The Semiotics of the Doppelgänger: the Double in Popular Culture   One of the themes from the last blog I wrote on ‘evil’, was the nature of how this is depicted in popular culture from a semiotic perspective. This started out with a Kantian perspective, that evil is something that all of us have the […]