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French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/french-professor-florent-montaclair-accused-award-prize #France #NoamChomsky #UmbertoEco #Linguistics #Europe #WorldNews

@kmherkes

Years ago, I read a book by Umberto Eco that served as an introduction to semiotics; it takes things back even further.

But etymology is truly fascinating. In German (I’m a native speaker), for example, the word “Freiheit” (freedom) has its roots in “being with friends.” Exploring such echoes within language deepens our capacity for perception and expression.

#etymology #semiotic #ethymologie #semiotik #umbertoeco #freunde #freiheit #freedom

Quando mi cimento con zozzerie come quella che #stoscrivendo in questo periodo mi torna in mente la #BustinaDiMinerva in cui #UmbertoEco fa l'esegesi del film porno, evidenziando come, poiché lo spettatore non può sostenere due ore di scene innominabili, questi film siano caratterizzati da riempitivi in cui gli attori si spostano in macchina, giungendo alle conclusione che un film è pornografico se per andare da un punto all'altro un attore impiega più di quanto lo spettatore tolleri.

Umberto Eco on What a Book Means

Career Authors
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco,
Umberto Eco on What a Book Means Paula Munier…
https://careerauthors.com/umberto-eco-on-what-a-book-means/

#Craft #THENAMEOFTHEROSE #UmbertoEco #writingquotations

@Grenhas Now that is a library! #UmbertoEco was so well-read!

#literatura #novela #prosa #narrativa #literaturaitaliana #umbertoeco
#UmbertoEco ✒️📖✒️
Es el propietario de 50.000 libros, comenta sobre las bibliotecas caseras:
«Es una tontería pensar que tienes que leer cada libro que compras, porque es una tontería criticar a aquellos que compran más libros de lo que nunca podrían leer. Sería como decir que debes usar todos los cubiertos o gafas o llaves o taladros que compraste antes de comprar nuevos.»
"Hay cosas en la vida que siempre necesitamos tener en abundancia, incluso si solo usamos una pequeña porción".
"Si, por ejemplo, consideramos los libros como medicina, entendemos que es bueno tener muchos en casa en lugar de algunos: cuando quieres sentirte mejor, ve al 'armario de medicamentos' y toma un libro. No al azar, sino el libro correcto para ese momento. ¡Esta es la razón por la que siempre debes tener una opción nutricional!"
"Quien compra sólo un libro, lee sólo este y luego se deshace de él. Solo aplican la mentalidad de consumidor a los libros, es decir, nos consideran un producto de consumo, un bien". "Los que aman los libros saben que un libro es todo menos una mercancía".

Vince is back with our #WeeklyPicks! 📚

Featuring ✨

Nash Falls by #DavidBaldacci
The Name of the Rose by #UmbertoEco
First-Time Caller by #BKBorison
The Tower by #FloraCarr
The Apocalypse is a Side Quest by #LiamLawless
We Used to Live Here by #MarcusKliewer
Wayfarer by #PhoebeSmith
A Wizard of Earthsea by #UrsulaKLeGuin

booknotification.com | #bookpicks #bookstodon

Vince is back with our #WeeklyPicks! 📚

Featuring ✨

Nash Falls by #DavidBaldacci
The Name of the Rose by #UmbertoEco
First-Time Caller by #BKBorison
The Tower by #FloraCarr
The Apocalypse is a Side Quest by #LiamLawless
We Used to Live Here by #MarcusKliewer
Wayfarer by #PhoebeSmith
A Wizard of Earthsea by #UrsulaKLeGuin

booknotification.com | #bookpicks #bookstodon

Vince is back with our #WeeklyPicks! 📚

Featuring ✨

Nash Falls by #DavidBaldacci
The Name of the Rose by #UmbertoEco
First-Time Caller by #BKBorison
The Tower by #FloraCarr
The Apocalypse is a Side Quest by #LiamLawless
We Used to Live Here by #MarcusKliewer
Wayfarer by #PhoebeSmith
A Wizard of Earthsea by #UrsulaKLeGuin

booknotification.com | #bookpicks #bookstodon

Vince is back with our #WeeklyPicks! 📚

Featuring ✨

Nash Falls by #DavidBaldacci
The Name of the Rose by #UmbertoEco
First-Time Caller by #BKBorison
The Tower by #FloraCarr
The Apocalypse is a Side Quest by #LiamLawless
We Used to Live Here by #MarcusKliewer
Wayfarer by #PhoebeSmith
A Wizard of Earthsea by #UrsulaKLeGuin

booknotification.com | #bookpicks #bookstodon

https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

#AntiFa #UmbertoEco

Unessa osallistuttiin #aarteenetsintä-peliin, jossa piti löytää kaupungilta tehtäviä ja ratkaista kustakin aina seuraavan tehtävän paikka. Ensimmäinen arvoitus oli antikvariaatin #kirjahylly'ssä. #UmbertoEco'n jälkeen aakkosissa oli #AndersEk, jota en ollut lukenut. Kaveri kuitenkin sanoi tietävänsä, miksi se on vihje. Uniminä ei tiennyt, ettei Ek oikeasti ole kirjailija vaan Seitsemännestä sinetistä tunnettu näyttelijä. (En tiennyt minäkään, mutta herättyäni guuglasin.) #unet #antikvariaatti

Unessa osallistuttiin #aarteenetsintä-peliin, jossa piti löytää kaupungilta tehtäviä ja ratkaista kustakin aina seuraavan tehtävän paikka. Ensimmäinen arvoitus oli antikvariaatin #kirjahylly'ssä. #UmbertoEco'n jälkeen aakkosissa oli #AndersEk, jota en ollut lukenut. Kaveri kuitenkin sanoi tietävänsä, miksi se on vihje. Uniminä ei tiennyt, ettei Ek oikeasti ole kirjailija vaan Seitsemännestä sinetistä tunnettu näyttelijä. (En tiennyt minäkään, mutta herättyäni guuglasin.) #unet #antikvariaatti

Unessa osallistuttiin #aarteenetsintä-peliin, jossa piti löytää kaupungilta tehtäviä ja ratkaista kustakin aina seuraavan tehtävän paikka. Ensimmäinen arvoitus oli antikvariaatin #kirjahylly'ssä. #UmbertoEco'n jälkeen aakkosissa oli #AndersEk, jota en ollut lukenut. Kaveri kuitenkin sanoi tietävänsä, miksi se on vihje. Uniminä ei tiennyt, ettei Ek oikeasti ole kirjailija vaan Seitsemännestä sinetistä tunnettu näyttelijä. (En tiennyt minäkään, mutta herättyäni guuglasin.) #unet #antikvariaatti

Unessa osallistuttiin #aarteenetsintä-peliin, jossa piti löytää kaupungilta tehtäviä ja ratkaista kustakin aina seuraavan tehtävän paikka. Ensimmäinen arvoitus oli antikvariaatin #kirjahylly'ssä. #UmbertoEco'n jälkeen aakkosissa oli #AndersEk, jota en ollut lukenut. Kaveri kuitenkin sanoi tietävänsä, miksi se on vihje. Uniminä ei tiennyt, ettei Ek oikeasti ole kirjailija vaan Seitsemännestä sinetistä tunnettu näyttelijä. (En tiennyt minäkään, mutta herättyäni guuglasin.) #unet #antikvariaatti

Unessa osallistuttiin #aarteenetsintä-peliin, jossa piti löytää kaupungilta tehtäviä ja ratkaista kustakin aina seuraavan tehtävän paikka. Ensimmäinen arvoitus oli antikvariaatin #kirjahylly'ssä. #UmbertoEco'n jälkeen aakkosissa oli #AndersEk, jota en ollut lukenut. Kaveri kuitenkin sanoi tietävänsä, miksi se on vihje. Uniminä ei tiennyt, ettei Ek oikeasti ole kirjailija vaan Seitsemännestä sinetistä tunnettu näyttelijä. (En tiennyt minäkään, mutta herättyäni guuglasin.) #unet #antikvariaatti

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
-- Umberto Eco

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #UmbertoEco #Attention #Internet

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

The Name of the Roto-Rooter

#PlumbingBooksOrPlays #HashtagGames #UmbertoEco

Any error can be the unrecognized bearer of truth.
-- Umberto Eco

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #UmbertoEco #Error

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

RE: https://horche.demkontinuum.de/display/2196d4ee-8769-9b23-752b-bfe889736779

Umberto Eco Pensador entre la Edad Media, los medios de comunicación y la modernidad #Lenguaje #Semiótica #UmbertoEco #Internet #Sociedad deutschlandfunk.de/19-02-2016-… Desde un principio, advirtió sobre una sobrecarga de información sin filtrar. Umberto Eco fue la voz más importante de la intelectualidad italiana: filósofo, semiólogo y uno de los novelistas italianos más exitosos. Falleció hace diez años.

Umberto Eco Pensador entre la Edad Media, los #mediosdecomunicación y la modernidad #Lenguaje #Semiótica #UmbertoEco #Internet #Sociedad

deutschlandfunk.de/19-02-2016-… Desde un principio, advirtió sobre una sobrecarga de información sin filtrar. Umberto Eco fue la voz más importante de la intelectualidad italiana: filósofo, semiólogo y uno de los novelistas italianos más exitosos. Falleció hace diez años.

>Wie rechts ist Friedrich Merz wirklich? Eine Analyse mit Umberto Eco<

Hintergrund - Informationen zu dem Buchtitel:

2018 und 2019 wurden in Italien zwei Schriften von #UmbertoEco veröffentlicht.

Diese Originalausgaben hießen "Il fascismo eterno" und "Migrazioni e intolleranza".

In Deutschland wurden beide Texte 2020 beim #CarlHanser Verlag unter dem Titel "DER EWIGE FASCHISMUS" veröffentlicht.

Der renommierte Journalist #RobertoSaviano hat das Vorwort verfasst.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4JhqrwvSC2A&si=K-9vRGnYNJnzUymx

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Gli intellettuali fascisti ufficiali erano principalmente impegnati nell’accusare la cultura moderna e l’intellighenzia liberale di aver abbandonato i valori tradizionali.
#UmbertoEco #Eco #intellettuali #valoritradizionali #Barrafranca #comunediBarrafranca #provinciadiEnna #Sicilia #Sicula #100euro #guerraculturale #pasteup #streetart

94012 (IT)
Gli intellettuali fascisti ufficiali erano principalmente impegnati nell’accusare la cultura moderna e l’intellighenzia liberale di aver abbandonato i valori tradizionali.
#UmbertoEco #Eco #intellettuali #valoritradizionali #Barrafranca #100euro #guerraculturale #pasteup #streetart

Any error can be the unrecognized bearer of truth.
-- Umberto Eco

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #UmbertoEco #Error

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

About halfway through watching this documentary on The Name of the Rose (1986) - fascinating amount of detail!! The fact that it was made by a filmmaker and fan of the movie definitely shows. I love that he got to interview Ron Perlman and Jean-Jacques Annaud.

https://youtu.be/fY_5owN0vMk?si=5hMf36j_yuoZHA6s

#umbertoeco #thenameoftherose #movies #jeanjacquesannaud #ronperlman

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SONO GLI INQUISITORI CHE CREANO GLI ERETICI.
#UmbertoEco #Eco #Barrafranca #provinciadiEnna #ilnomedellarosa #eretici #inquisitori #100euro #guerraculturale #pasteup #streetart

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SONO GLI INQUISITORI CHE CREANO GLI ERETICI.
#UmbertoEco #Eco #ilnomedellarosa #eretici #inquisitori #100euro #guerraculturale #cashmoney #streetart

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SONO GLI INQUISITORI CHE CREANO GLI ERETICI.
#UmbertoEco #Eco #ilnomedellarosa #eretici #inquisitori #100euro #guerraculturale #cashmoney #streetart

“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components.” — Umberto Eco

2025 feels like an Eco novel: Normal persons everywhere.

Meet Schmalk’s patron saint — the man, the myth, the legend.

#Schmalk #UmbertoEco #Culture #Philosophy #MediaCritique #Postmodernism #InternetCulture #CulturalTheory

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗼" 𝗯𝘆 𝗨𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝗰𝗼 -

Only a few titles of his I have not read now, and every one stirs the semiotician in me. A fantasy-history of the 12th century when a language-gifted peasant boy stumbles through crusader history: what power the word in this place?

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #umbertoeco #baudolino #historicalfiction #fantasyhistory #presterjohn #ThirdCrusade

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗼" 𝗯𝘆 𝗨𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝗰𝗼 -

Only a few titles of his I have not read now, and every one stirs the semiotician in me. A fantasy-history of the 12th century when a language-gifted peasant boy stumbles through crusader history: what power the word in this place?

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #umbertoeco #baudolino #historicalfiction #fantasyhistory #presterjohn #ThirdCrusade

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection -- not an invitation for hypnosis.
-- Umberto Eco

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #UmbertoEco #Civilization #Democracy

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

#Sismique - TRUMP EST-IL FASCISTE ?

Très bon épisode de podcast qui prend au sérieux le fascisme de Trump, point par point.
Une analyse fine et rare pour décrypter le retour des autoritarismes : leur héritage, leurs inspirations, leurs méthodes.

🌐 https://shows.acast.com/sismique/episodes/68daef3109b1c365e407b31e
🎧 https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/sismique/e/68daef3109b1c365e407b31e/media.mp3

#trump #Fascisme #antifa #ConseilPodcast #podcastFr #UmbertoEco

TBR Pile: October 2025 Reads -

Titles of Italian heritage, democracy support, and horror.

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #halloween #13DaysofHalloween #robertrose #valuablefriction #umbertoeco #baudolino #aijiang #linghun #heathercoxrichardson #democracyawakening #milankundera #thebookoflaughterandforgetting #thomasking #theinconvenientindian #masaakinakayama #ptsdradio

TBR Pile: October 2025 Reads -

Titles of Italian heritage, democracy support, and horror.

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #halloween #13DaysofHalloween #robertrose #valuablefriction #umbertoeco #baudolino #aijiang #linghun #heathercoxrichardson #democracyawakening #milankundera #thebookoflaughterandforgetting #thomasking #theinconvenientindian #masaakinakayama #ptsdradio

Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism

https://bobmschwartz.com/2017/12/28/umberto-eco-ur-fascism/

#HackerNews #UmbertoEco #UrFascism #Fascism #Philosophy #PoliticalThought #CriticalTheory

My write-up for #ICFPContest2025:

https://rmathew.com/2025/icfpc25.html

A #fun three days of problem-solving and #programming, but no success – SNAFU. 🤷🏽‍♂️

#ICFPC #ICFPContest #ICFPC25 #Go #GoLang #TheNameOfTheRose #UmbertoEco #AI #ICFP #Plug #WebSite

Some background about #LawrenceBritt 's #CharacteristicsOfFascism, which was sold (but not displayed) at the Holocaust Museum. The article does NOT mention that Britt's list was obviously based on #UmbertoEco's version. Oh well...

Fact check: 'Early Warning Signs Of Fascism' sign was once sold at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sarah Lynch, July 2020

"While a poster with the “Early Warning Signs Of Fascism” was indeed previously sold in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Shop, it did not originate from the museum and was not part of any exhibition or display. Britt wrote the words in a 2003 article in Free Inquiry, which Syracuse Cultural Workers reprinted and sold with his permission."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/11/fact-check-poster-once-sold-u-s-holocaust-memorial-museum/5549019002/

The original poster is still being sold here:
https://syracuseculturalworkers.com/products/poster-early-warning-signs-of-fascism

#LawrenceBritt #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #SyracuseCulturalWorkers

@MarkHoltom This version is by #LawrenceBritt, based on #UmbertoEco's list.

#CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #CorporateFascism

Finally, I am a real blogger because I quoted a dramatic popular movie monologue in a timely post! Find out what it is and learn about fascism in the meantime by following the link belowwwwww. Also, read Doppelganger!

https://kostyn.ca/do-not-engage-ur-fascism-and-naomi-kleins-doppelganger/

You can follow the blog on the Fedi by following @kostyn.ca

#Activism #AntiFascism #Books #diagonalism #Liberation #NaomiKlein #rhetoric #UmbertoEco #UrFascism #blog

Do not engage: Ur-Fascism and Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger

https://kostyn.ca/do-not-engage-ur-fascism-and-naomi-kleins-doppelganger-2/

Reading C. J. Sansom's "Dissolution":

"Reputedly a copy of Aristotle's lost work /On Comedy/.", he said. "A fake, of course. Thirteenth century Italian, but beautiful nonetheless."

🤣

#UmbertoEco #CJSansom #TheNameOfTheRose

La Scala is staging an opera version of Umerto Eco's Il nome della rosa, but it's only 4 shows starting this week, but I won't be going to Milano until August :( :( :(

I miss living in that city...

https://www.teatroallascala.org/en/season/2024-2025/opera/il-nome-della-rosa.html

#LaScala #Opera #IlNomeDellaRosa #Milano #UmbertoEco

Am 06.06.205 treffen wir uns wieder - diesmal zusammen mit der Fachgruppe #Ethik der #GI - IRL in #Berlin & #online für alle, die es nicht in Persona zum Treffen schaffen.

Es freut uns, euch mitteilen zu können, dass Max Schnetker, der an der Uni Bonn zum Thema #Longertermismus promoviert, zu uns kommen wird. Seine #Forschung betrachtet unser Jahresthema digitaler #Autoritarismus aus einer für uns interessanten Perspektive.

Infos zum Referenten:

Max Franz Johann Schnetker promoviert an der Uni Bonn über den Zusammenhang von digitalem #Kapitalismus, #Technologien wie künstlicher Intelligenz und neuen #Ideologien wie #Transhumanismus. Man erreicht ihn auf #Mastodon unter @MSchnetker

Zur Vorbereitung unseres Treffens empfehlen seinen Vortrag vom #38C3 https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-longtermismus-der-geist-des-digitalen-kapitalismus und den #TESCREAL Artikel von @xriskology auf #truthdig https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/

Weiterhin begleitet uns der Text #Urfacism von #UmbertoEco

#Antifaschismus

Social-Media-Pause, aber mir ist ein Blog-Eintrag aus dem Gemüt gepurzelt.

https://molochronikhome.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/der-name-der-rose-kulturindustriell-kaputtgedungt/

#UmbertoEco #DerNameDerRose

🤔 Ah, the mystical journey of tech—a love affair that starts with Umberto Eco's fax machine and ends with an avalanche of spam. 🚮 The real miracle here is not speed, but how quickly nostalgia devolves into a tirade against the evils of modern gadgets. 📠✨
https://maksimizmaylov.com/writing/eco-cycles/ #technostalgia #moderngadgets #UmbertoEco #spamavalanche #digitaljourney #faxmachine #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Ah, the mystical journey of tech—a love affair that starts with Umberto Eco's fax machine and ends with an avalanche of spam. 🚮 The real miracle here is not speed, but how quickly nostalgia devolves into a tirade against the evils of modern gadgets. 📠✨
https://maksimizmaylov.com/writing/eco-cycles/ #technostalgia #moderngadgets #UmbertoEco #spamavalanche #digitaljourney #faxmachine #HackerNews #ngated