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The New Alphabet (DNA #1)

Author(s): Cotten, Ann; Hui, Yuk; Lerner, Ben; Scherer, Bernd; Tada, Kanako; Tillmans, Wolfgang

Designer(s): Nicolai, Olaf; Gewinner, Malin; Drißner, Hannes; Dreßen, Marcus

Language(s): English

Pages: 88

Year: 2021

Publisher: Spector Books

City: Leipzig

URL: https://spectorbooks.com/the-new-alphabet

ISBN: 9783959054539

Abstract: Operating in the space between a regulatory cosmos and the chaos of life, spoken language and its written notation unfold in different directions. Proceeding from the digital as a seemingly universal notational substrate, the first volume of Das Neue Alphabet (The New Alphabet) series tracks the interplay between these two tendencies by looking at a series of examples: the relationship between binary code and Leibniz’s philosophy of Monadology, the technological and cosmological aspects of non­ Western writing systems, which are antithetical to a monolithic understanding of language, and the power of the Alphabet Song to teach children the alphabet, its ordering principle cloaked in poetic form. The texts are accompa­ nied by images created by artist Wolfgang Tillmans.

Category: Non-Fiction

Contributor(s): Prescott, Amira

Location: Arnhem

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