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Twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft silently hover over disparate locations around the Earth. Affected nations send military and scientific experts to monitor and study them; in the United States, US Army Colonel G.T. Weber recruits linguist Dr. Louise Banks and physicist Ian Donnelly to study the craft above Montana. On board, Banks and Donnelly make contact with two seven-limbed aliens, whom they call heptapods; Donnelly nicknames them Abbott and Costello. Banks and Donnelly researching the complex written language of the aliens, made of palindrome phrases written with circular symbols, and share results with other nations. As Banks studies the language, she starts to have flashback-like visions of her daughter.

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"I went up to a/the dog and pet it, but I also didn't"

A little test sentence inteded to show off the weird tense system this purely semagraphic language has. Semagraphic means that nothing in the sentence actually has a pronunciation and the language is purely written. The people who spoke it, or rather wrote in it, were apparently capable of perceiving two time dimensions instead of only one like we're used to, making it possible for them to see many timelines at once.

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|L3ia|

1)Basal-frequency band: Key Hologram

used for building holon, digital, hyperplex circuits

which serve as data cycling units within the cybersphere

to encode the simulation

2)Thusly:

|dancing Creatrix designs reality|

programmed:

— yawn — type — birth —

consuming and adapting via key placed in sensory zone(empty quadrant)

3)

|thresholder|

programmed:

— gap — hold — swallow —

remaining stable open and allowing cross connections

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[ key hologram: |L3ia| is pre-encoded for technoholon data packages most useful to discontinuity within an established matrix and computing uniquely architected simulations. prolonged use results in staining]

Typography Tuesday

Letter forms, including typographic letters, are tied very specifically to language, whether they are alphabetic, syllabic, phonographic, logographic, or part of a mixed system. To read within a particular set of typographic characters, one must understand the language it encodes.

Today we present sample pages from the novel Book from the Ground: from point to point by the renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing, which is entirely composed of signs and icons that are not tethered to any particular language. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative. The result is a highly readable story without words recording 24 hours in the life of a typical, urban, white-collar worker. Using an exclusively visual syntax, the text can be read by anyone with experience in contemporary life, regardless of the language they use. The experience of reading this remarkably-lucid novel is quite extraordinary. Xu Bing writes:

Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read, Though quite different, the two books share something in common: regardless of a reader’s language or level of education, the books treat all readers equally. Book from the Sky was an expression of doubt and alarm regarding preexisting systems of writing; Book from the Ground expresses the ideal of a single, universally understood language, and my sense of the direction of contemporary communication.

The samples we present here are the subtitle, table of contents, a narrative about morning routines, a discussion about what to eat for lunch, an interrupted conversation between lovers, and a series of evening routines. Book from the Ground was published in 2013 by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the MIT Press.

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