Lorenzo L. D. Incardona

Making Sense of Crises. Identity markers in Niketas Choniates’ De Signis Constantinopolitanis

A granular semiotic and philological analysis of Niketas Choniates’ De Signis — his account of the statues destroyed during the Fourth Crusade (1204). Through icons, indices, and allegories, Niketas transforms a catalogue of ruins into a narrative of identity reassertion, forcing the absurd into meaning by wielding ekphrasis as a tool to cope with civilizational crisis.

Ethics without Bodies. Some Considerations on Claude’s Constitution from a Semiotic Perspective

An analysis of Anthropic’s Claude’s Constitution as a new kind of discourse, exploring the opaque resemantization of its lexicon, the ideology it structures, and the problematic relationship between ethics and bodies.

“I’ve got blisters on my fingers!” Indexicality, Authenticity, Truthfulness, and the Semiotics of Micro-Resistance in the AI Age

In collaboration with Giuseppe Laricchia. A semiotic investigation of how embodied musical practices — from Ringo Starr’s blisters to Lingua Ignota’s radical performances — serve as forms of resistance to algorithmic optimization, seals of authenticity, and ways to restore the meaningfulness of music.

Thomas Aquinas’ determinatio. The restriction of possibilities as a general semiotic operation

A semiotic rereading of the Thomistic concept of determinatio — the restriction of a field of possibilities by a determining instance — as a general operation manifesting at grammatical, narrative, and axiological levels, from Hjelmslev’s asymmetric functions to the modal competence of actantial subjects, ultimately extending to the modeling of generative AIs and their ethical accountability.

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Meaner than Trump! Roles, figures, and values of heels in wrestling

A semiotic exploration of villain archetypes in professional wrestling — roles, narrative figures, and the cultural values they embody.

Cultural Stereotypes in Artificially Generated Music

In collaboration with Giuseppe Laricchia, an investigation into how AI music generation systems reproduce, transform, and reinforce cultural stereotypes through sonic and compositional patterns.