“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, April 28, 2011

Patrick Jones on Ecological Form

One of the more recent commenters on this blog, Patrick Jones, has a very good essay in a recent issue of Angelaki (2010). It puts its typographical money where its mouth is, that's for sure. As a big fan of form I couldn't help liking it immediately. Here's a snippet—forgive the brevity but I think it captures the essence of the thesis (sorry for the smallness, click for a bigger image):



That's the ticket. “Slow text”: I've been pushing for “slow reading” for quite a while now. I've been advocating for this kind of passion about form for ages. I hope we can meet when I come to Melbourne. He also has a very good looking series of blogs, perhaps the most relevant to mention here being Permapoesis.

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