Rosaire Appel, Listening is a way of walking
Rosaire Appel: “asemic writing is also a way of leaping forward into territory not yet conceptualized… a transition strategy perhaps” (Jun 10, 2011, post to the ASEMIC Google Group, now @ https://archive.org/stream/AsemicWritingDefinitionsAndContexts19982016/Asemic%20Writing%20Definitions%20and%20Contexts%201998-2016_djvu.txt)
I really like Rosaire Appel’s idea of a “transition strategy”.
Often the signs of an ongoing research are not covered nor coded nor represented by any known “language”. They actually build-and-deconstruct some kind of new (non)language.
And it seems to me that our definitions often fail to grasp the flickering borders of the asemic land. It seems like we are (happily) dealing with aesthetics, rather than linguistics.
More. (And incidentally:) I ask myself: do we absolutely need definitions? Or do definitions & theory rather belong exactly to the territory we are just flying away from?
Tim gaze : “asemic writing says what I cannot say in words” (from a text in the muse apprentice guild).
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