Accessing Asemics - Work by De Villo Sloan

[cheryl penn]

Asemic writing – it belongs to the post literate genre, right?  Free floating, mind unbound,  experimental, abstract. It hints at meaning, whilst denying specific content.   It may use visual language structures whilst negating language concepts in its illegibility.  It certainly free floats in the avant-garde, rooting itself (sometimes) in the earliest forms of writing.

This could read as a modern archaic (oppositions  I know) foundation cuneiform text – as illegible, but faintly recognizable as a writing system.

It’s a shadow writing system, right?  Shadows, images emerging out from the asemic palimpsest.   

A post-literate society is still hypothetical? But more real than we can imagine I think.  Its coming further out of the shadows each day. Its reality is growing, unchecked.

And then we have the blots. Rorschach inkblots.  Somehow there is a VERY intriguing connection between asemics and this technique.  Yes, in psychology tests involving interpretation are used, along with algorithms to determine emotional functioning and personalities – what is so different here in terms of analyzing personal writing systems? The term “ambiguous designs” certainly comes to mind.

 

And the methodology?

Free association phase – for sure!

Inquiry phase – absolutely!

It all makes cognitive sense to me.  Thank you DVS – a stimulating piece of work – absolutely FAB verb pages.

 

 

[Marie Wintzer]

Chuffed I got you hooked!

I already chicked them out, not bad!

[cheryl penn]

Thanks for the link DVS - CERTAINLY will be chicking it out later - CHECKING CHECKING :-)))!!! Will get back to you on the compounds :-)

[De Villo Sloan]

And the molecules - I'm trying to work the languages of math and science in. Not sure what CP-SA is doing it for

[De Villo Sloan]

Here is a representative book in the area:

http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Science-Literature-Arts-Humanists/d...

Disclaimer: I'm NOT plugging books or academic programs - wanted to show some examples

[De Villo Sloan]

INTERESTING comments. The hottest thing I know about in literary theory right now is multi-disciplinary connections with Brain and Cognitive Science. Here's a link to a program that I'm familiar with that explains it. Literature and science closely aligned:

http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/

[cheryl penn]

Marie - FAB :-)) What a wonderful observation - SO pertinent!  "The place of exchange between the 'raw' information we receive from the outside world, and the 'processed' information sent back to the brain, the way we respond to it" - I'm hooked!!!

[Marie Wintzer]

I like the first two pages best. The layering is great, I like the touch of pink carefully placed in the text. And the right part, looks like a spine with nerve roots coming out of it. Now that I see it again the last picture looks like a spinal cord too. I don't want to bring too much science gibberish blah blah into this (like I know something about it), but the spinal cord is the place of exchange between the "raw" information we receive from the outside world, and the "processed" information sent back back the brain, the way we respond to it. So I see a nice image here.

Also, those chemical formula are intriguing. I also found them in DW' Stations, and in Cheryl's Matters of the Heart, among others.

[De Villo Sloan]

The medicine was the joke. You deserve a written apology from the Sandpo Movement and me. I will take this up with The Minister of Propaganda. We must follow proper channels.

[cheryl penn]

The medicine or the apology? :-) Do you do written apologies in America? I'll take it in asemic script.

[De Villo Sloan]

For the record - I was joking. I think it's the good weather.