Category Archive: Semiotics

Multifaceted Living

On the sliding scale of time that gradiently builds and ebbs and recedes I am perpetually being re-context-ed and being iteratively re-inserted into particular frames of reference and spheres of existence.  I am simultaneously (at… Read More

Real Life Applications of Cognitive Linguistics

I have said it before and I will say it again: ANYTHING that requires thought benefits from a cognitive linguistic perspective. We use language to help in making sense of the world, this… Read More

Maple Keys remind me of a Taxonomy chart

I was thinking about maple keys recently. The maple key is an interesting schema of a taxonomy; the kernel is like a category node – the top-level domain.  Each vein in the wing… Read More

Perpetual Epicentral Density Sphere

The Perpetual Epicentral Density Sphere is a unpublished model of cognition that I began developing in the late ninety’s and early years of 2000 as a result of my training in linguistics and… Read More

On Failure & Resilience in Optimization of Human Systems, Ecological Systems, and Networked Systems of Systems

I was recently watching Eleanor Saitta’s talk called “Your Infrastructure Will Kill You“.  Part of her talk outlined how optimization equals fragility (more or less).  That to the degree that something is cleaner,… Read More

Inherent Narratives in Ad Hoc Collections

Part of my portfolio includes this project called Weaving Narratives: Possessions = Autobiographies, it is an exploration into how any ad hoc grouping of objects has some kind of inherent narrative, albeit a… Read More

What does Soulwax’s website, DJing, & Construction Grammar have in common?

Soulwax’s website extends an invitation for viewers to participate in DJing as they explore the website.  From my first exposure this has been an amazing experience.  The intuitive guided navigation doubles as a… Read More

Why I Believe in Cut & Paste as a Design Strategy

Cut & Paste is not just a keyboard function.  In fact, R.G. Collingwood coined the term in the mid 1940′s in his book The Idea of History, but being a more formal speaker… Read More

Guest Post: The Digital Polis – Nicholas Carson Miller

I invited Nicholas Carson Miller to guest post on the shape of a particular internet culture…I hope you enjoy his work -SportLinguist I. The New Prehistory We can’t go ask ancient peoples what… Read More

Weaving Narratives: Possessions = Autobiographies

I recently created a short interview about my art project “Weaving Narratives” where I describe the process of reading objects that people own.  I hope you check it out and let me know… Read More

What I got for Christmas…

Daft Punk’s film “Electroma” Daft Punk’s album “Human After All” Gilles Fauconnier’s & Mark Turner’s “The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities” Stephen C. Levinson’s “Space in Language and… Read More

Epenthesis, Truncation, and Phonetic Exploitation in Graffiti

While riding the train to school last week I noticed that a lot of the graffiti contains allusions to a sort of folk-phonological understanding of phonemics. This is not a criticism at all,… Read More

CONTAINER Is an Ontological Metaphor

Ontological Metaphors are metaphors that give shape to abstract concepts and even contribute to the structure of Primary Metaphors.  CONTAINER is one of those metaphors.

A Cognitive Linguist’s Version of The BBC’s 100 Book List

I felt like a loser when the BBC 100 book list (even though it wasn’t actually from the Beeb) was going around because I had only read 5 of the books, so, in… Read More

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