Reading as Imagining
Vilém Flusser in his essay The Future of Writing describes writing as “transcoding two-dimensional codes into a single dimension” and states that “the original purpose of writing was to facilitate the deciphering of images”.
The translation from surface into line implies a radical change of meaning. The eye that deciphers an image scans the surface, and [...]
Writing as the Sequencing of Symbols
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When one imagines the act of writing, they think of the written word, the alphabet, the sentence. Writing is understood as a separate form of expression than drawing despite both involving the same rudimentary process - the marking of a surface. The word “write” actually originates from the German “reissen”; to sketch. It could [...]
