Images of language charts, scripts, tattoos, books, paper, and readers are arranged to form the glyph for the letter “G”, and joined with a block text of words using an “NG” construction. The word list resolves in the word “English”, which is the homogenous unifying language of digital and global discourse.

Twentieth century philosopher, Charles Peirce elucidates a break with traditional philosophy as nominalism and anticipates certain features of embodiment theory, such as: stable identity, the logic of representational meaning, semiotics as a general theory of logic, and the evolution of meaning. This concept of the continuity of human discourse and the evolution of learning is consistent with several new theorists including: James O'Donnell (Avatars of the Word), Mark Johnson (The Body in the Mind) and George Lakoff (More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor). Lakoff and Johnson propose metaphor is an embodied logic in human physiology. Jay David Bolter's and Richard Grusin’s theory of Remediation like O'Donnell’s Avatars of the Word, argues that the current digital revolution refurbishes the media of earlier generations.

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