Semiotic War and the passing of Umberto Eco

 Remembering Umberto Eco, including his works on the theory of semiotics:

semiotic war

 

     Conducting a war using a full range of signs and symbols -- but pointedly excluding violence or other unlawful or violent acts. A war of ideas in the age of internet and multimedia. Compare scamizdat. 

     The Internet's response to Scientology's attempt to rmgroup alt.religion.scientology included publishing their trade-secret "scriptures," graphically reviling them, putting billboards on trucks and buses, hosting radio talk-show segments, songwriting, projecting laser glyphs on walls, having aircraft pull pennants with slogans, picketing their headquarters, deconstructing their newsletters, creating cartoon lampoons and webpages, and, in other words, full semiotic war. 

scamizdat

     Neologized by Grady Ward, referring to the continuing response to Church of Scientology litigation threats by publishing "secret scriptures" to the Internet. c. 1995 in alt.religion.scientology. "Scam" + "samizdat" q.v.

More generally, any publishing of texts to expose a scam, when those texts are the fiercely protected copyright of the alleged scammer.\

I have Scamizdat issue #4, does anyone have issue #10 with the Fishman Declaration?

or 

The scamizdat is revealing all their bogus secrets.