The anti-alphabet works by tracing it back from Latin to Greek, from Greek Phoenician to Egyptian hero glyphs. The last step is that the letters become animals and plants on each page. "Each of these letters is a plant in much the same way that the plant out there is a plant"
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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