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Calligraph and Seismograph

Calligraph and Seismograph
Hinter dem Nebel
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Whispers in a summer meadow
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First appeared in «Phantom Kangaroo», Claudia Dawson editor, issue 25, 2021.
How to dismantle the alphabet to be found
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Ding an sich
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This work invites the reader/onlooker to depict the whole body as a diffused neuro-semiotic net, wherein synapses, cells and other attractors intertwine.
Ears, eyes and skin (Ohr/OhrAugenécran) restlessly collect stimuli from an ultimately unknowable, maybe subliminal substrate (Ding an sich) to be later on mapped into language.
In the same way as artificial fuzzy systems or neural networks essentially consist of adjustable mathematical models, the original states of biological machines are keen on being informed.
Since the speed of learning can hardly keep up with the fluidity of perception, world may become a resonation of word, and word that of wood(s) and so forth. Reality exhibits a certain bias for meaning and conceptualizing beyond likely errors. The thick barrage of signs at the verbivisual surface of the page is a caveat against anchoring signification, as if an excess of information had definitively come into play.
The intrinsic instability of textual matter begins at the ground-state of words. The mechanism of adding or dropping letters reminds that of the charging/uncharging of particles by contact and proves that meaning always exerts a certain pressure.​​​​​​​
Approximate sonogram of a northern mockingbird singing
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Tiresias' Gate
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So the midnight bird sings
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Notizen aud dem Weg durch die Stadt
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CANTO CXVII
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Private Collection, Chicago 2020.
Blank lines while the blue bird sings
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Slowly spreading rumors
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Notes about a found texture - first appeared on "Stonecrop" n. 2
Random dead access memory - first appeared on "Stonecrop" n. 2
Erdgedächtnis
Echoing
151 silent threads
flowing off the loom alphabets
Canonic variations on black minor
Main text and secondary texts
Pseudosonnet
Durch Asemische Strukturen
Asemic scores for airport
Doping a writing introduces new allowed meaningfulness states within the sense gap, quite close to the full semantic band corresponding to the dopant text. To put it another way, text donor impurities create states near the signifier band, while text acceptor impurities create states near the signified band. The gap between these meaningfulness states and the nearest meaningful band is rather small and usually referred to as asemic gap.
Calligraph and Seismograph
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Calligraph and Seismograph

Fractal and asemic writing explorations.

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