#logograms

"I went up to a/the dog and pet it, but I also didn't"

1)Basal-frequency band: Key Hologram

used for building holon, digital, hyperplex circuits

which serve as data cycling units within the cybersphere

to encode the simulation

2)Thusly:

|dancing Creatrix designs reality|

programmed:

— yawn — type — birth —

consuming and adapting via key placed in sensory zone(empty quadrant)

3)

|thresholder|

programmed:

— gap — hold — swallow —

remaining stable open and allowing cross connections

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Typography Tuesday

Letter forms, including typographic letters, are tied very specifically to language, whether they are alphabetic, syllabic, phonographic, logographic, or part of a mixed system. To read within a particular set of typographic characters, one must understand the language it encodes. 

Today we present sample pages from the novel Book from the Ground: from point to point by the renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing, which is entirely composed of signs and icons that are not tethered to any particular language. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative. The result is a highly readable story without words recording 24 hours in the life of a typical, urban, white-collar worker. Using an exclusively visual syntax, the text can be read by anyone with experience in contemporary life, regardless of the language they use. The experience of reading this remarkably-lucid novel is quite extraordinary. Xu Bing writes:

Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read, Though quite different, the two books share something in common: regardless of a reader’s language or level of education, the books treat all readers equally. Book from the Sky was an expression of doubt and alarm regarding preexisting systems of writing; Book from the Ground expresses the ideal of a single, universally understood language, and my sense of the direction of contemporary communication.

The samples we present here are the subtitle, table of contents, a narrative about morning routines, a discussion about what to eat for lunch, an interrupted conversation between lovers, and a series of evening routines. Book from the Ground was published in 2013 by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the MIT Press.

The Arrival Movie code shown in Christopher Wolfram's livecoding session is now on GitHub!

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