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🦋 Asemia

Turns out there is a name for the genre to which Codex Seraphinianus and the Voynich Manuscript belong; it is called "asemic writing", writing without semantic content.

Two resources: The New Post-Literate is an asemic blog, a gallery of asemic work by various artists, maintained by Michael Jacobson. (Thanks for the link, Edmond!) Have not looked around there a whole lot yet -- there seems to be a lot of interesting visuals but little in the way of links for further investigation of the images. And ASEMIC is an Australia-based magazine of asemic writing. The first three issues are available in electronic form for free, the more ambitious fourth issue you have to pay for.

posted evening of Thursday, December third, 2009

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What's of interest:

➪	MobyLives, the blog of Melville House Publishing, will be posting a series examining BolaÃ±o's readings -- the prefatory post today mentions Borges, Cervantes, CortÃ¡zar, Perec, Kafka, and more.
➪	At Latest Research, Paul Habeeb posts a recording of Wallace reading "Brief Interview #30":

(Other links of interest at my Google+ page. It's recommend ed!)

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