Signs and Society

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🔍Through the concept of hygge, Dr. Journey reveals how sensory experiences of light shape not only the politics of energy transition but also the contours of Denmark’s racial imagination.

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🌆Dr. Journey shows how this technological shift doesn’t just alter the city’s appearance! It transforms how people feel about urban space.

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💡In this piece, Dr. Journey explores Copenhagen’s changing lightscape as the city replaces its warm sodium streetlights with cold, energy-efficient LEDs as part of its Climate Plan to become the world’s first carbon-neutral capital.

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🆕 New Article Alert!
✨ Have you heard of the Danish concept of hygge, often translated as “coziness”? ✨

Check out Dr. Rebecca Journey’s (@beccajourney.bsky.social) new article, “A Semiotics of Coziness and Disappearing Night”!

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An illuminating concept: 💎pearl nationalism💎
📄"National revival through submissive women who are like pearls" (Pg. 2)
👉It is a metapolitical project that aligns gendered chronotopes to imagine a return to an imagined tradition through modern mass-mediated spacetime.
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🆕 New Article!
Check out Dr. Catherine Tebaldi’s (@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) new article on "tradwives," who are social media influencers who promote an idealized, "feminine" womanhood by staging nostalgic chronotopes of tradition, from 1850s homesteads to 1950s suburban homes.
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An illuminating concept from the article: 🕌Prophetic Spacetime🕌
This is Dr. Thompson's term for a chronotope that fuses the Prophet's time-space into a living moral template: timeless, universal, and imagined as a utopian model to which present-day Muslims are called to return.
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🕰️Using the lens of "chronotope," Dr. Thompson traces how these texts move across gendered chronotopes shaped by nostalgia, religious authority, and East Africa's shifting sociopolitical landscape.
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🆕New Article
Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨
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Guest edited by Dr. Aurora Donzelli, this special issue explores practices and ideologies of translation as “an object of ethnographic investigation” within capitalist worldmaking.

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🎊New Issue Available! 🎊

Signs and Society 13:3 is now live!

📘 The Translation Machine: Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism

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In this piece, Dr. Donzelli walks us through how the featured articles explore translation as both "an essential device for capitalist value projects and a productive analytic prism for understanding our contemporary moment."

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🆕 JUST PUBLISHED!
Check an introductory article for the upcoming (soon!) special issue “The Translation Machine: Infrastructures of Valorization under Semiocapitalism" written by Dr. Aurora Donzelli.

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NEW PUB by 2024-25 CASBS fellow Matthew Hull in Signs and Society, "Capitalism and the Semiotics of Corporate Personhood in a Law of Human Persons"

Matt wrote the paper at CASBS 😏

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If you're interested in the semiotic features that distinguish "corporate persons" from human persons, shape their sociopolitical identity, and enable their power in today's global capitalism, this article is for you.

Follow the link below to read more!

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🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨

Check out Dr. Matthew Hull’s latest article on the semiotics of corporate personhood—how signs construct corporations as “legal persons.” 💼

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In this article, the authors explore how “counting” extends beyond mere enumeration—into practices of branding, solidarity, and policing—by rendering unhoused populations into tangible forms like maps and infographics, thereby contributing to broader modes of urban and liberal governance.
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🚨New FirstView Article Alert!🚨

Check out SAS's latest article by Drs. Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile Vigouroux, examining how translation practices render unhoused individuals into quantifiable data 📊
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🎉New Issue Available!🎉

Signs and Society 13:2 is now LIVE! 🙌

Dive into a wide-ranging collection of new articles, spanning topics from Fanfa bands to Artificial Intelligence!

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Dr. Perrino also develops a theoretical framework for translating “Made-in-Italy” by analyzing translation practices as "fluid and scalar phenomena"—what she terms “inter-scalar translations”—in which scales are intrinsic to these practices themselves.

ENJOY!
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In this piece, Dr. Perrino analyzes three narratives from executives of Northern Italian family-owned companies to show how they draw on past and present family histories to shape both individual and collective branding identities.
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🚨New Article Alert!🚨
Add Dr. Sabina Perrino’s @sabyperri.bsky.social latest article on translating “Made-in-Italy” to your 🌞summer reading list🌞!
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Check out SAS's new article by Dr. Kristina Nielsen @drkristinanielsen.bsky.social examining how call center workers are trained to adopt the semiotic frameworks that make emotive statements intelligible and effective.
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🚨New Article Alert!🚨
"I can understand how frustrating the situation is."
We've all heard phrases like this from call centers--but what makes them work? 📞
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