Situations of writing

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The text does not “gloss” the images, which do not “illustrate” the text.

From Roland Barthes’ Empire of Signs (1982), no page.

Cover of Looking at Images: A Researcher’s Guide (2014)

‘Situations of Writing’ Workshop, Flat Time House, August 2018

Robert Frank, The Americans, 1959.

Derrida’s Glas (1974), with Dante’s Divine Comedy (1520) on the right. From the exhibition ‘The Book The Object’ (2016) Special Collections Gallery, University of Southampton

Screenshots from ‘Victor Burgin: image and text in changing times’, available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnKMwnYA4K0

For me, each has been no more than the onset of a kind of visual uncertainty … 

From Roland Barthes’ Empire of Signs (1982), no page.

Barthes, Roland. 1982. Empire of Signs. Translated by Richard Howard. London: Jonathan Cape.

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Derrida, Jacques. 1974. Glas. Paris: Éditions Galilée.

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Dante, Alighieri. 1520. Opere del divino poeta Danthe …  [Divine Comedy]. Venice: Per Miser Bernardino Stagnino da Trino de Monferra.

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