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Ein Pferd. Ein Beobachter. Gedankenexperiment.

un cavallo · un osservatore · l’osservatore guarda il cavallo che corre, ma non viceversa · il cavallo si allontana sempre di più e non sa di essere guardato · sul cavallo c’è un uomo, che guarda il cavallo ma non l’osservatore · all’improvviso, l’uomo a cavallo guarda l’osservatore · i loro occhi si incrociano · anche l’osservatore è a cavallo — ora si può vedere · c’è qualcuno che lo può…

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the sign begins to die

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language effects produced by the dispersion of air in Zurich HB

«Cognitive capitalism relies not only on the production of knowledge, but on the optimization of intelligibility. Asemic writing resists this imperative. It is illegible not because it is random, but because it refuses the contract of communicative transparency. The interpretive effort it demands is no longer one of extraction (of content), but of immersion (in form and sensation). It asks us to…

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Topologies of Sound and Script

From I[c]onic Log — excerpt featured in Private PhotoReview, 5 June 2025. I[c]onic Log, Nils Röller (foreword), Michael Betancourt (afterword), Calamari Archive, Ink., New York, 2025, ISBN 978-1940853413 (Paperback), 978-1940853482 (Hardcover)  [Eng-Ger-It-Fr] / buy: amazon • asterism • read: archive • listen: podcast • download: [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

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WHITE NOISE - Volume 1

co/ordinates : editorial; [44.231108, 8.248847]; wind-learning machine; sonogram of bark as a function of wind time; [44.231594, 8.250014]; patterns that characterize the wind in the observed area; winter concert; in vivo z-stacking and 3D-reconstruction of textual patterns; a young reader’s guide to melting ice; the glacier; investigation of empirical tendencies; asemic writing as a field; the…

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(on a) page of manifold and calculation

What is more asemic: a page of quantum mechanics fluttering through a department of modern literature, or a non-assertive poem written in white chalk on a blackboard in a physics department?

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i[ↄ]onic+ log - p.68

I[c]onic Log, Nils Röller (foreword), Michael Betancourt (afterword), Calamari Archive, Ink., New York, 2025, ISBN 978-1940853413 (Paperback), 978-1940853482 (Hardcover)  [Eng-Ger-It-Fr] / buy: amazon • asterism • read: archive • listen: podcast • download: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ : few more remarks : ] chance operations as a radical gesture to de-center authorial control  introducing indeterminacy into…

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i[ↄ]onic+ log - p.86

I[c]onic Log, Nils Röller (foreword), Michael Betancourt (afterword), Calamari Archive, Ink., New York, 2025, ISBN 978-1940853413 (Paperback), 978-1940853482 (Hardcover)  [Eng-Ger-It-Fr] / buy: amazon • asterism • read: archive • listen: podcast • download: [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

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i[ↄ]onic+ log - 118

I[c]onic Log, Nils Röller (foreword), Michael Betancourt (afterword), Calamari Archive, Ink., New York, 2025, ISBN 978-1940853413 (Paperback), 978-1940853482 (Hardcover)  [Eng-Ger-It-Fr] / buy: amazon • asterism • read: archive • listen: podcast • download: [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

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Equivocally Informative Script

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My Interview to "Asymptote"

From World to Wor[]d: On Linguistics, Visual Art, and Asemic Writing with Italian Artist Federico Federici, «Asymptote Journal», Junyi Zhou, Lee Yew Leong editors, April 2025. Physicist-turned-artist Federico Federici works across visual poetry, asemic writing, and conceptual art. Drawing inspiration from physical and mathematical concepts, semiotics, philosophy, and music, he bridges the gap…

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Where Do I Begin? - Michael Betancourt

[ pdf download ] Language is a thing-in-the-world, but unlike the objects we can easily and empirically measure, it mostly resides in the minds of the people interacting with it, and we consider it not only by its physicality, but from its capacity to communicate—semiosis describes this process of recognition, recalling past encounters and playing upon established knowledge and expertise…

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Reine Mittel - Nils Röller

[ pdf download] Ein Algorithmus kann lernen zwischen einer Pflanze und dem Stress, dem sie ausgesetzt ist, zu unterscheiden. Diese Feststellung ist ein Impuls, menschliches Unterscheidungsvermögen zu befragen. Für diese Fragestellung ist die Wahl der Mittel unter dem Aspekt ihrer Fremdheit eine ethisch-ästhetische Herausforderung. Federici zeigt mit seinem Buch eine Wegrichtung dazu auf, wenn er…

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Pure Means - Nils Röller

trans. by Federico Federico | pdf download An algorithm can learn to distinguish between a plant and the stress it is exposed to. This statement is an impulse to question human discernment. Within this line of inquiry, the choice of means, considered in terms of their foreigness, poses an ethical-aesthetic challenge. Federici’s book lays out a course in this direction, particularly when he…

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i[ↄ]onic+ log - Calamari Press, New York 2025

i[ↄ]onic+ log is an exploration of the edges of language, where meaning does not settle but oscillates—charged, dispersed, and reconfigured. Federico Federici constructs a shifting landscape of asemic writing, physics, and conceptual poetics, where each fragment resists closure and yet compels the reader to engage with the text as a field of forces rather than a linear argument. Through a…

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Motherboard and Cells: A Poetics of Interfacing - Dr. Alain Verhaegen

Motherboard and Cells is a visual poetry work that entangles the organic with the machinic, presenting a cybernetic tension between biological networks and computational logic. The piece operates at the intersection of semiotics, biology, and cybernetics, where meaning is not inscribed but emerges dynamically from the interplay of form, texture, and materiality. The motherboard—an archetype of…

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film of 45 lines per second