By: Joshua Glenn

Middlebrow ads on HiLobrow?

By: Joshua Glenn

Chevron’s “I Will” campaign owes a debt to Foucault and Kafka.

By: Joshua Glenn

The IBM brand has gone touchy-feely. Does “humanized science” coding need refreshing?

By: David Smay

Lois Lane’s Super-Brain!

By: Joshua Glenn

Head & Shoulders discovers a new element molecule.

By: Joshua Glenn

Pity the poor semio­naut, who “reads” the world phen­omeno­logically.

By: Joshua Glenn

What’s with Boo Berry’s new pendulous skin flap?

By: Joshua Glenn

Do despots’ statues command us to topple them?

By: HILOBROW

A website of semiotic cultural and brand analysis, coedited by HiLobrow’s Joshua Glenn.

By: Matthew Battles

Cliff Edwards & the danger of a tiny instrument.

By: Matthew Battles

In author years, he’s still under forty!

By: Joshua Glenn

The kitschification of the pipe.

By: Joshua Glenn

“No Context” is an origin myth for Nobrow.

By: Joshua Glenn

Alfred Lambert’s prehistoric golf shoes — from The Corrections.

By: Peggy Nelson

Earn the second HiLobrow merit badge: Pipe Dreams.