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Asemic Writing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Writing has a visual aspect, aside from its role in relaying meaning, which is about how it looks, rather than how it reads.  Asemic writing is text as image, an abstraction of conventional writing.  Having no semantic content, it highlights the fact that meaning is arbitrary, and that language systems rely on cultural practices and non-linguistic behaviours to function.  They have no fixed basis in the real world, but \u201cfloat free\u201d, unhinged from the objects and ideas they represent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is a strong physical presence in handwriting, the residual trace of a bodily gesture and a mental act that leads and guides the hand.  As we become more and more reliant on digital media, the act of holding a pen is becoming more and more remote.  Typing is quite a different motor skill; it involves tapping not stroking and the units are solitary, isolated from each other.  Forming letters and words with their curves and flicks in a body of text speaks of unity, identity and a timeless art of expression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A line – any line inscribed on a sheet of paper – is a denial of the importance of the body and its flesh, the body and its humors. The line gives access neither to skin nor to membrane laden with mucous.” Roland Barthes (<\/strong>1976)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Imaging the page<\/h3>\n\n\n\n