Oh Stexts is a recent continuation of Paul Chan's Alternumerics project, started in 2000: a series of customized fonts, in which each letter or digit has been replaced
by fragments of texts inspired by various sources.
Not exact matches
By providing only
fragments from biblical books (in this case part
of an oracle from Isaiah, a reassurance from Paul, a parable from Jesus), they leave a suggestive opening, not only to other
texts...
This parallel has been obscured
by the fact that the term «kerygma» can ambiguously refer both to
fragments of primitive Christian preaching embedded in the New Testament
text, and to the word
of God I encounter from the pulpit or in my neighbour today.
By providing only
fragments from biblical books (in this case part
of an oracle from Isaiah, a reassurance from Paul, a parable from Jesus), they leave a suggestive opening, not only to other
texts but also to the even more
fragmented tissues
of our individual lives.
(If, as the Qumrân
fragment most recently published
by Allegro seems to confirm, the «teacher
of righteousness»
of this sect really was put to death and his return was awaited, still what most decisively separates this sect from the original Christian community [apart from the other differences, for which see my article, «The Significance
of the Qumrân
Texts», J. B.L., 1955.
First found
by Bedouin herdsmen, later archaeologists have gathered 17,000
fragments of Jewish
texts dating to the time
of Jesus.
While the first Opening lines are the initial portions
of dialogue or
text in a written book often constituted
by at least the first sentence or a
fragment thereof.
In these games, players can leave shared online messages in any area
of the game
by piecing together pre-made
text fragments and scrawling them on the floor.
The BMA presents Front Room: Adam Pendleton, a dramatic installation
of new and recent work
by the New - York based artist that examines the relationship between abstraction and representation through layered and
fragmented texts and images sourced from the artist's personal library.
«History floats in the collages
of Carlos Vega, borne along on receipts, invitations, letters and
fragments of literary
texts, presided over
by figures who flout the laws
of gravity....
By silk - screening fragments of text from an essay by the French thinker Maurice Blanchot directly onto the surface of the paintings, he integrates language with his iconic image
By silk - screening
fragments of text from an essay
by the French thinker Maurice Blanchot directly onto the surface of the paintings, he integrates language with his iconic image
by the French thinker Maurice Blanchot directly onto the surface
of the paintings, he integrates language with his iconic images.
His
text speaks to absence as much as presence with a story
of war and empire told in
fragments, phrases, words hanging on the page — an index
of both the trauma and resistance experienced
by those subjected to the violence
of empire.
The accompanying book consists
of ten short new
texts around which
fragments of communication with the authors have been punctuated
by observational photographs and sculptural documentation.
The presented works will be connected with
texts on the artists, written
by Josef Strau, partly already published, partly in a more
fragmented form
of some collected notes.
The highlight
of a section on art and language, for example, is the 1976 artists» book, «Foirades / Fizzles,» featuring five enigmatic
text fragments in French and English
by Samuel Beckett and 33 prints
by Johns.
Inspired
by Roland Barthes's philosophical
text A Lover's Discourse:
Fragments (1977), the work embodies the push - pull dynamic
of romantic relationships, capturing what Zimbardo describes as «the dualities
of cooperation and struggle, action and passivity, speech and silence.»
«The static record is
by definition insufficient,» he said at the time
of his interest in reanimating archival
texts as quoted
fragments.
Several
of these works introduce enigmatic
fragments of text, which are quotations, puns, or snippets
of conversation that are invented
by the artist.
Her canvases, too, are like palimpsests, layered with
fragments of texts, images, passages
of color, and gestural brushstrokes, all based on her observations
of her urban environment and inspired
by Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg.
Thirteen predominantly black canvases are characterized
by a profusion
of broad, frenetic brush strokes, scattered knots
of scratchy white lines and a few stray
fragments of enigmatic
text.
The exhibition pursues a thesis proposed
by two
fragments of text, written nearly forty years apart but conveying a similar notion
of temporal disorientation and, vitally, the amalgamation
of American Mass Age glamour and European intellectualism.
I can't find the context
of the
text fragment used as an example
of the «minimizes» subset
of Level 6 in Table 2 but the most likely reading
of the
fragment by itself is that it assumes that humans are causing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations to increase and that this is causing or contributing to global warming, so the
fragment does say (or at least imply) something about human attribution.
Given that
text documents are still very much the core material produced
by legal professionals, and that references to
text documents will remain the basis for grounded and verifiable legal reasoning regardless
of the actors and technologies employed, current generation standards in the legal domain are providing a layered organization
of their offerings: presentation - oriented XML is being replaced with structured XML with ample room for metadata and annotations; naming mechanisms based on URIs and IRIs provide linkable anchors both to entire documents and to smaller
fragments; and document - oriented ontologies provide the necessary glue between abstract legal reasoning and the textual pieces
of supporting evidence.