Signs and Society Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2026

Table of Contents

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Front Matter

1. The Semiotics of improvisation
Randeep singh Hothi
pp. 1-6

2. Improvising through Glitches, Clams, and Deterritorialization in virtual Reality Games
Norma Mendoza-Denton
pp. 7-28

3. Diagramming the Possible: Situated Improvisation as a way of Inhabiting Professional Worlds
Matthew Bruce Ingram and Ian Mitchell Wallace
pp. 29-54

4. In the Grip of the Moment: Time, Touch, and Embodied Improvisation
Sarah Marleen Hillewaert
pp. 55-67

5. Abstract Spontaneity: On Brushstrokes as Gestures
Jürgen Streeck
pp. 68-95

6. Creativity and Emergence in Improvisational Theater and in Social Life
Keith Sawyer
pp. 96-112

7. A Meditation in Sign-Processes in Their Open-Ended-Ness: On the Non-Purposiveness of Semiosis in Cosmic Play and Equipoise
Randeep Singh Hothi
pp. 113-134

8. Roundtable: Afterthoughts on the Semiotics of Improvisation
Sarah Hillewaert, Randeep Singh Hothi, Matthew Bruce Ingram, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Keith Sawyer and Jürgen Streeck
pp. 135-142


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