An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting Jacobson, Michael

Title: An Anthology of Asemic HandwritingEditor: Jacobson, MichaelPublisher: UitgeverijBinding: PaperbackPages: 216Dimensions: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.49dProduct Weight: 0.55 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9789081709170An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despite these observations, asemic writing is not everything: it is just an essential component, a newborn supernova dropped from a calligrapher's hand. Asemic writing is simultaneously communicating with the past and the future of writing, from the earliest undeciphered writing systems to the xenolinguistics of the stars; it follows a peregrination from the preliterate, beyond the verbal, finally ending