Asemic: The Art of Writing PDF
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ASEMIC This page intentionally left blank ASEMIC T he Art o¬ Writ ing l Peter Schwenger University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis | London Parts of chapter 2 were originally published as “Enigmatic Epistolarity: Twombly’s Letter of Resignation,” Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal 50, no. 3 (2017): 73– 89. Copyright 2019 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401- 2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and employer. 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Schwenger, Peter, author. Title: Asemic : the art of writing / Peter Schwenger. Description: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2019006711 (print) | ISBN 978-1-5179-0696-2 (hc) | ISBN 978-1-5179-0697-9 (pb) Subjects: LCSH: Visualization. Classification: LCC BF367 .S39 2019 (print) | DDC 153.3/2—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019006711 ¬or the art ists This page intentionally left blank All artworks are writing, not just those that are obviously such; they are hieroglyphs for which the code has been lost, a loss that plays into their content. Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 What Asemic Writing Is, and Why 1 CHAPTER 2 Three Asemic Ancestors 19 Henri Michaux, Roland Barthes, and Cy Twombly CHAPTER 3 Traces 61 CHAPTER 4 Three for Today 101 Michael Jacobson, Rosaire Appel, and Christopher Skinner CHAPTER 5 Reading Asemic 137 Online Resources for Asemic Writing 151 Acknowledgments 153 Notes 155 Bibliography 161 Index 171
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