Constant Weights about the Signs

contexts

writing sets itself as the act of intercepting and recording a series of phenomenological data into signs, rather than calculating them out of a signification formula;

every bit stands for an amount of energy, just as every word represents an amount of signification 

in the seamless transition from sign to sign, signification progressively sheds its content and takes on the archetypal value inherent in the sign-making or sign-discovery process;

the increasing lack of conventional text components reflects a systematic and theoretical approach rather than an aesthetic judgement;

this establishes a structural field of new formal possibilities that re-quires us to rethink where signification resides, regardless of how we use it; 

potential residual contents tend to become theoretical, trapped within the spatialised metrics that delimit and sustain the expanded textual environment;

the scene (the dark, the dusk, the desk)

UNSIGNED NOTICE, New York (1967)

nihil in mundo nisi prius in verbo

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