I had this image of like waking up, like literally waking up from sleep in that there's a moment before things start to crystallize. And that kind of brings up maybe the psychedelic experience where you kind of break a lot of that structure and it becomes more fluid and formless. If we are accepting that writing in and of itself carries a moment of authoritarian iteration, and that this authoritarian iteration is generalizable, then deexis marks what used to be what is to be postulated outside of the way that it's written. I think if we sort of, if we use this kind of anti alphabet, as I call it, toward moving, or to develop ways of living into the
In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel about the themes of his book, Breaking the Alphabet and the tyranny of the written word.
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