This alphabet book explores the divergent
array of theories on embodiment
in post modern and digital culture.
Taking the premise that
iconographic or pictorial language is an emerging
reading standard, this book
is a visual essay. The visual text uses metaphors of the body
(with
images from the western tradition of fine art)
as icons of
the body and embodiment theory. These images
are the background skin of the page/screen
surface. Iconographic language is intuitive
and non-rational, therefore each
alphabet letter is composed of
poetry, the language of the intuitive mind.
Each letter page
focuses on an aspect of
cultural or textual embodiment in a primer of new cultural
theory at the beginning of the
digital age. For the rational-minded each alphabet page
includes a commentary discussing the references in
the letter
page. The commentary can be read in a separate
window or in a frame alongside the alphabet
letter image.
To read this book: Follow the
links on the Letters menu.
