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The idea for Semiotic Drift and some of its fragments grew out of Nebulae: A Discourse in Fragments, the theoretical spine of my PhD. Other pieces emerged from research, dreams, conversations, encounters, and observations. Semiotic Drift carries this work beyond its original contexts. New juxtapositions alter how the fragments can be read.
The writing moves between criticism and life writing, through film, television, video games, literature, art, digital culture, photographs, objects, dreams, memory, and place. The pieces take different forms: compressed essays, autobiographical fragments, theoretical notes, lists, quotations, dreams, and visual analyses.
The fragments are numbered in the order they arrive. Readers may enter anywhere. Each piece can be read alone. Meanings gather across the unfinished archive through recurrence, contradiction, proximity, omission, and drift.
Recent fragments