TOWARDS AN IDEOGRAMIC MPHDJ METHOD
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Ideograms. Turntables. PICTURES. SOUNDS?
Symbols. Tallismans.
Ideograms. Turntables. PICTURES. SOUNDS?
Symbols. Tallismans.

Musing on the ideogramic method of Ezra Pound and how he remixed some of the Chinese Characters into his great poem including History “The Cantos”; i asked myself “how much more quickly and effectively someone like POUND or Ernest FENOLLOSA could have worked with the kind of webnet tools we have freely available in 2008? (For translation, etymological research etc.) If he could have had access to a kind of KEYBOARD with interchangable SYMBOLS upon it, to experiment with and develope a language/poem?
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