Semiotic Drift is an ongoing series of micro-essays, fragments, and short critical pieces on media, culture, theory, and the way meaning refuses to behave.
The writing here engages with film, TV, video games, literature, art, digital culture, and whatever else I happen to be thinking about. Some pieces are compressed arguments. Some are fragments. Some move by association rather than design. All of them try to stay close to thought in motion.
I am interested in how images linger, how ideas migrate, how nostalgia reorganises the past, and how culture shapes the self before the self has language for what is happening. The work sits somewhere between criticism and autobiography, theory and lived experience, structure and drift.
My thinking draws on a hybrid academic background: a BA in Media Studies, an MA in Sociology and Global Change, and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing. I spent several years lecturing in Media Studies, English Literature, and Creative Writing at a British university. Some of this work emerged from that teaching. Some of it came from staring at screens and books for too long and needing to write my way out.
I was born in South Africa and live in the UK. I run a small independent press called Analog Submission Press. I also write about the craft of life writing at Written from Life.
This site runs on Bear Blog, a minimal platform with no tracking, no analytics, and no interest in quantifying attention. It is built by an independent developer, which matters to me, and it keeps the focus on writing rather than metrics, which matters too.
All writing is © Marc Brüseke unless otherwise noted. You are welcome to quote or share excerpts with attribution.
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