%0 Journal Article %A Massimo LEONE %D 2023 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology %@ 2065-5002 %N 2 %V 18 %T Mirrors, Selfies, and Alephs: A Semiotics of Immobility Travelogues %R 10.3726/CUL022021.0006 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1377645 %X The article focuses on past epidemics and previous confinements, looking for the art of journeying through immobility. It rekindles the plague that ravaged the city of Turin in the 1630s, as well as Xavier de Maistre who, confined in the military citadel in 1790, wrote the %K travel literature, immobility, pandemics, lockdown, semiotics