Reintroducing the theoretical foundation and practices of interpretative semiotics to Princeton
To favor the development of a platform for interactive and collaborative interdisciplinary research that connects an international network of scholars interested in semiotics who are willing to act as mentors, hosts to visiting exchange students, peer-readers and external advisors, and collaborators for future projects.
“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used ‘to tell’ at all.”
Umberto Eco
philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator