Visual & syntactic materialities in written language

  • Elena Etter

This book is an enquiry into how written language is constructed from the inside and how it manifests visually. It foregrounds an oblivion of the semantic value in the visual representation of language, and argues that language is inseparable from its physical manifestation: words are both carriers of meaning and material objects. Taking the notion of constellation as a metaphorical device for analysis, the book is bound to a 5 degree angle (to allude to the measurement system for celestial objects) and punctuation throughout the text is set at a large point size (taking the shape of a constellation).