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Before Code, Beyond Speech
By Lucy Siyao Liu
The Creative Independent x Are.na's Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources
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The Creative Independent x Are.na's Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources
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Codified systems of communication—such as writing, reading, and speaking—rely on pre-existing infrastructures of meaning to make sense. Concepts, emotions, and values are siphoned through the filter of language to become programmable and efficient. In this way, today’s communication systems regulate how we think and perpetuate spaces where nothing can be said without immediate interpretation.
I wonder: how we can escape the tyranny of monolinguistic thinking? How do we think in images? How do we think in lines? How can we expand how we communicate?
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