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Record Nr.

UNINA9910584582503321

Autore

Gaze Tim

Titolo

An anthology of asemic handwriting / / edited by Tim Gaze and Michael Jacobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2013

Den Haag, Netherlands : , : Uitgeverij, , 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)

Soggetti

Writing in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despite these observations, asemic writing is not everything: it is just an essential component, a newborn supernova dropped from a calligrapher’s hand. Asemic writing is simultaneously communicating with the past and the future of writing, from the earliest undeciphered writing systems to the xenolinguistics of the stars; it follows a peregrination from the preliterate, beyond the verbal, finally ending in a postliterate condition in which visual language has superseded words. An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is compiled and edited by Tim Gaze from Asemic magazine and Michael Jacobson from The New Post-Literate blog.