
Illegibilities Reflecting Reading
con·stel·la·tions 03
TEXTEM VERLAG
Published on 15. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-3-86485-341-8 (ISBN)
Description
When the attempt to translate something into sound and meaning fails or is only partially successful, it is usually called 'illegible'. It can be frustrating to be confronted with indecipherable graphisms or potentially crackable codes, defaced writing or text that remains incomprehensible. But it can also prove highly productive, for it is precisely the unfulfilled expectation of legibility that enables new ways of thinking about reading itself. Illegibilities Reflecting Reading sounds out reading as an aesthetic, semiotic and epistemic practice by focusing on its limits. By engaging with experiences of illegibility, the essays in this volume reflect on reading, for example, as an interaction between body and artefact, as an exercise in attention, as a dominant mode in Western knowledge cultures, or as a metaphor for understanding the world.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hamburg
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86485-341-8 (9783864853418)
Schweitzer Classification