Schriftatlas II, 1a
I have crossed an ocean, a hemisphere, and the continents which cleave them, in pursuit–of what?–perhaps scarcely more than some new means by which to see the infinitely visible things […]
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on VISION and VISION-MACHINES; the VISIBLE and the INVISIBLE; the VISIONARY and the IMAGINARY
Schriftatlas II, 1b
… vnnd fuer auß von der Santt vieZendo Jm 1553 Jar vnd Am 24 tag Juni an Sannt Johanneßtag so begab sich Jn disser Zeit daß wier 14 Lanng auff […]
Schriftatlas II, 2a
Where does construction end and ruin begin? What distinguishes destruction from decay? The swift jetsam of a dropped or blasted bomb cannot share the attributes of that slow detritus which […]
Schriftatlas II, 3a
[The recto of folio 3 features two diagrams, one apparently superimposed upon the other at a later date. The first, rendered in black ink is redolent of Michelangelo’s human figure […]
Schriftatlas II, 3b
I’ve no longer to make a language. I’ve no longer any language to make. All the basest elements have decamped into the humid din, retreated into a dense, recondite, impoverished […]
Schriftatlas II, 4a-4b-5a
Let us imagine two concepts in oscillation, in the manner of two objects in orbit about one another, at once bound to and separated from one another by the gravitational […]
Schriftatlas II, 6a
Every snapshot is the diagram of an eventual, if unintended, expropriation. The unencompassable array of these latent displacements–each as imperceptible as it is inexorable–amounts to nothing short of a horizon […]
Schriftatlas II, 6b
… vnd waß man heundt pauett daß fiel morgen wieder umb Ein, dan daß folgt hedt nit Zu Essen vnd starb von hunnger vnd hetten grosse armuet… (f10v) … auch […]
Schriftatlas II, 7a
Let us pose the question more precisely: is not the image, every image, but a vector of its future misuse, hence the projection of its essential ex-propriety, the inscription, in […]
Schriftatlas II, 8a
… daß schieff Jn hundert thaußend sthucken gestossen vnd verdrangt 15 mannen vnd 6 Jnndieaninnerin Etlich khamen auß auff grossen heltzer vnd Jch vnd ander 5 gesellen khamen auß auff […]
