This volume charts the origins, development, and future potential of semioethics through the work of Susan Petrilli, showcasing an extended dialogue with one of the eminent figures in semiotics scholarship.Featuring a wide-ranging conversation between Petrilli and scholar Simon Levesque, the book makes the case for semioethics as a critical approach that can help us better understand important issues at stake in today’s world, such as precarity, social responsibility, and climate c...

Il y a cinquante ans cette année paraissait le numéro spécial « La sociologie au Québec » sous la direction de Jean-Charles Falardeau. Deux questions présidaient à cette entreprise : « comment on fait des sociologues; ce qu’ont fait les sociologues » (Falardeau, 1974a, p. 133). Les sociologues du Québec de langue française furent invités à parler de sociologie : « celle qui les a inspirés; celle qu’ils ont faite; celle qu’ils ont voulu communiquer » (Ibid.). Pour l’occasion, environ 400 so...

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such as this edited, multidisciplinary collection is needed. This book confronts the vulne...

Each year we hand-pick 50 of today's top indie authors and ask them to submit a story. Then we ask a team of ruthless judges to scour that ore and pick out the gems. The result is All These Shiny Worlds II:* a world of today where cosplay and stagecraft are bright lights hiding dark shadows* a world of tomorrow, where kitchen appliances fend for themselves and take solace in each other's arms, refugees from indifferent owners* a world of little cogs in big ma...