I’ve mentioned before Johanna Drucker’s Diagrammatic Writing, a book that “is as much about itself as a book can be,” (self) referring to every element of book creation and design while demonstrating the reality and implications of those elements in the composition and printing of the book itself. My point has always been to put forward this very intense degree of self-referentiality as a model for writing and thinking, but also, and especially here, as a model of human orders which, I will say, should be as much about themselves as possible. This is what I mean by “idiomatic intelligence,” and it can be summed up in the proposition that sociality is and should therefore explicitly be an ongoing festival commemorating its own origin, both that human order itself in all its specificity but that order as a refraction, or translation, or transcription of human origin itself. We could all be chauvinist in asserting some capture of some element of human origin left undetected by others.
Languaging Ordering
Languaging Ordering
Languaging Ordering
I’ve mentioned before Johanna Drucker’s Diagrammatic Writing, a book that “is as much about itself as a book can be,” (self) referring to every element of book creation and design while demonstrating the reality and implications of those elements in the composition and printing of the book itself. My point has always been to put forward this very intense degree of self-referentiality as a model for writing and thinking, but also, and especially here, as a model of human orders which, I will say, should be as much about themselves as possible. This is what I mean by “idiomatic intelligence,” and it can be summed up in the proposition that sociality is and should therefore explicitly be an ongoing festival commemorating its own origin, both that human order itself in all its specificity but that order as a refraction, or translation, or transcription of human origin itself. We could all be chauvinist in asserting some capture of some element of human origin left undetected by others.