Tagged: Gesture of Writing

April 5, 2012

Notes on the Gesture of Writing

I asked the students on the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice course to read the essay. The discussion ranged far and wide, as usual, and I fear we didn’t get to what I would call...

Flusser / Flusser for Anglophones / gesture / writing

April 3, 2012

The Gesture of Writing

Flusser’s “The Gesture of Writing,” along with my notes about it, has just been published in New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Taylor and Francis) vol 9...

Welcome, and thanks for visiting. The site is about writing, which I most often take to be a technology for "translating" sound to surface, ephemeral event to durable text, embodied to disembodied authority. I know there's a before, after, and "in addition to" as well: there are amazing ancient writing systems, or lines made by electrocardiographs or weather forecasting instruments that count as writing for me as well. And there's the threat of a deference to robotic readers undermining human language as such. I'm optimistic, however.

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