This book, by Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz, is another in the series of graphic introductory guides to enormous complex topics like logic or critical theory. If you don't know what semiotics is, you should probably get out of this post before it's too late.* If you do, then this book, I can guarantee, will provide a helpful overview of international academic trends and disciplines influential within and upon the field of semiotics - i.e. the study of signs. It's a relatively new field for me to be reading much into, and it's like discovering metaphysics all over again - somehow, everything leads back to it, and however much sense it makes there's nothing in the middle and nothing holding it together. Language and communication and concepts and objective reality and subjective perception all spiral away together in an inexplicable tautological circle-shaped puzzle.
This book, indeed this whole intellectual field, has added a dense and complex extra layer onto my own mentally-experienced-and-rationalised self, which is always exciting, but means I can't really write anything substantive about it right now.
A decent introduction, then, I suppose.
* Google it. I know, right?
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