Reading as Imagining
Vilém Flusser in his essay The Future of Writing describes writing as “transcoding two-dimensional codes into a single dimension” and states that “the original purpose of writing was to facilitate the deciphering of images”.
The translation from surface into line implies a radical change of meaning. The eye that deciphers an image scans the surface, and it thus establishes reversible relations between the elements of the image. It may go back
Writing as the Sequencing of Symbols
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When one imagines the act of writing, they think of the written word, the alphabet, the sentence. Writing is understood as a separate form of expression than drawing despite both involving the same rudimentary process - the marking of a surface. The word “write” actually originates from the German “reissen”; to sketch. It could be argued that the primary difference between writing and drawing is that one involves a recognisable and consistent system of