Benedict Demiren Singleton

RIP Wolfgang Wildgen: cognitive linguist and semiotician, sociolinguist, and theorist of evolutionary linguistics.
His work beinging together Peircean semiotics with René Thom's catastrophe theory challenged me to push my learning into fields i never imagined.

Below a list of his publications:

The Cloverfield monster was modelled after a spooked horse for just this uncanny effect or so my slowly disintegrating end of year brain IIRCs me

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Fieldnotes from the Metaverse | Interview I was recently interviewed by Dirk Songuer for his book: Fieldnotes from the Metaverse which "documents the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse" and the interview is now online.

I was recently interviewed for 'Fieldnotes from the Metaverse'. The interview is now online.

We discussed the core thesis of my own book: that Dungeons & Dragons is the most important Social Technology of the 20th Century.

Mmm like Nick Cave saying ChatGPT can’t “write a song” because a song is an act of self-murder—“sense #1 maximalism”, but I find it hard to accomplish a totally zero degree of empathy with this proposition