Semiotics and Cultural Theory

I began to be interested in semiotics after living for some months in a community which took signs seriously back in 1976. An astrologer came from London to Donegal to do everyone's chart - I declined as my science background made me very sceptical. After leaving the community I began reading about the subject and became fascinated by its symbolism, and also came across the statistical research of Michel and Francoise Gauquelin. My interest and research in this area and the publications that resulted is described in the Astro and Solar-terrestrial section of this blog.

 The following year a friend showed me the book Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss and pointed out his work on the myths of the Sun and Moon in Latin America, and from this I began to be interested in Structuralism and Semiotics - which is also the title of a short book by Terence Hawkes.

So far I have only had four articles published in academic journals, three in Semiotica. My current interest is in the new subject of bio-semiotics and especially in the interface between semiotics and economics, building on the work of Ferruccio Rossi-Landi and J.J. Goux.