Amy - on the constrained writing tip (Bok's Eunoia or Perec's Le Grand Palindrome).. check:
One Syllable Article!
Barthes dream or nightmare? But also logos having the last laugh - reminds me of Negarestani's claims of vowels as impeding language and communication.... (see consonantal tyranny post)... where the dental, labial and palatal speech mechanisms fail and crumble under the pressure of data-intensity - the dead derridean symbols prove their prowess as sturdier info-'carriers' - better signifiers! But life is more than what can be signified right?
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Saturday, 21 April 2012
Euoi
My new favourite word. No consonants. A dionysian/bacchic vowel howl!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euoi
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euoi
Saturday, 7 April 2012
speech jammer
http://io9.com/5889934/japanese-researchers-build-speech+jamming-gun-that-stops-you-mid+sentence
Decent Accents Ascent and Indecent Accents Descent
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/young-professionals-are-paying-for-accent-softening-as-they-feel-the-right-voice-will-help-them-get-ahead-3067179.html
Birmingham accents predictably come up as most disadvantaging...sigh.... We covered loads of accent-centric culturo-cartographies in the last few Vocalities sessions, but I still find it incongruous with the premises contemporary life (internet, travel, diaspora etc) that accent still has a class, a culture or even a place ...
Birmingham accents predictably come up as most disadvantaging...sigh.... We covered loads of accent-centric culturo-cartographies in the last few Vocalities sessions, but I still find it incongruous with the premises contemporary life (internet, travel, diaspora etc) that accent still has a class, a culture or even a place ...
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