Rhapsodomancy Excerpts
Excerpts from kevin mcpherson eckhoff's collection of visual poetry, Rhapsodomancy.
A bit of explanation:
Rosetta Stone
Sir Isaac Pitman experimented with Romanesque phonetic alphabets, but decided they were too slow to write. He often used this excerpt from eighteenth-century Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg to present the differences among his frequently improving versions of Shorthand.
Shorthanded Unifon
What if the Unifon alphabet were drawn using Shorthand markings? What if these markings were then transcribed for their phonetic output?
Mumble Girls
‘Is there a knowledge, and, above all, a language […]
that one can call alien at once to writing and violence?’
– Jacques Derrida, ‘The Violence of the Letter’
In 2000, Lea Hernandez published the futuristic graphic narrative series Rumble Girls, in which she uses a version of Unifon tomark corporate authority. In my interpretation of her text, I transcribe the onomatopoeia from the original comic into Unifon and place it in the mouths, or rather, the suits of the corporate antagonists.
