{"id":233,"date":"2012-04-05T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2022-12-06T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:10:13","slug":"notes-on-the-gesture-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Notes on the Gesture of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked the students on the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice course to read the essay.\u00a0 The discussion ranged far and wide, as usual, and I fear we didn&#8217;t get to what I would call the heart of the matter, namely the features unique to writing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very hard to understand that Flusser is not actually talking about the use of specific media, so much as the way a given medium shapes a prevailing consciousness.\u00a0 They wondered about the presence of text and image on a single page (entirely reasonable), and the only example I could give was the point in the <em>Writing<\/em> book where he talks about a mathetmatical equation functioning as a kind of island&#8211;visual&#8211;within a linear scientific text.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good example, but actually more complex, saying more about Flusser&#8217;s theory than these students were going to absorb at that moment.\u00a0 There were several comments about the very last sentences, about &#8220;writing is necessary; living is not&#8221; sounding rather crazy. They didn&#8217;t sound crazy to me.\u00a0 I would put the difference down at a first approximation to age (I&#8217;m way older), and yet more evidence of different relationships to writing, and how dramatically they affect consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The painting is George Catterole&#8217;s <em>The Scribe<\/em>. \u00a0Date is unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked the students on the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice course to read the essay.\u00a0 The discussion ranged far and wide, as usual, and I fear we didn&#8217;t get to what I would call&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,62],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-flusser","tag-gesture-of-writing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}