Corpus · Semiotics

The Lines

Five moves in the theory of the sign — and the one thread that ties them: everything that can be used to lie. Open a line to read it here.

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The thread

Eco’s criterion is what makes all five one lineage: a semiotics is a theory of the lie, and a sign is anything that can stand in for something else — including something that is not there.