The Knotted Sign: Poetics of Illegibility

One might argue that legibility precedes any concern about poetics, because: What are the poetics of something we cannot understand? However, our interaction with digital technology constantly exposes us to the illegibility intrinsic to its operations. The aim of this essay is to reflect on illegibi...

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Main Author:	Elvira Blanco Santini
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Editorial Delirio 2017-05-01
Series:	Caracteres: Estudios Culturales y Críticos de la Esfera Digital
Subjects:	Illegibility poetics optical character recognition glitch machine learning
Online Access:	http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol6n1mayo2017/knotted/

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spelling	doaj-a9233e74245c4229bbbfd44e14a61f6e2020-11-25T01:57:59ZengEditorial DelirioCaracteres: Estudios Culturales y Críticos de la Esfera Digital2254-44962254-44962017-05-01615981The Knotted Sign: Poetics of IllegibilityElvira Blanco Santini0Independent ResearcherOne might argue that legibility precedes any concern about poetics, because: What are the poetics of something we cannot understand? However, our interaction with digital technology constantly exposes us to the illegibility intrinsic to its operations. The aim of this essay is to reflect on illegibility from three perspectives: the definition of readability as a Eurocentric cultural regime, the exploration of the poetics of the machine-readable as opposed to the human-readable, and the proposition that we are facing an increasingly ubiquitous regime of illegibility that is not limited to writing. After this vaguely chronological review of the modern history of illegibility, I will attempt to answer: What can the unreadable mean as an expressive resource?http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol6n1mayo2017/knotted/Illegibilitypoeticsoptical character recognitionglitchmachine learning
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title	The Knotted Sign: Poetics of Illegibility
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description	One might argue that legibility precedes any concern about poetics, because: What are the poetics of something we cannot understand? However, our interaction with digital technology constantly exposes us to the illegibility intrinsic to its operations. The aim of this essay is to reflect on illegibility from three perspectives: the definition of readability as a Eurocentric cultural regime, the exploration of the poetics of the machine-readable as opposed to the human-readable, and the proposition that we are facing an increasingly ubiquitous regime of illegibility that is not limited to writing. After this vaguely chronological review of the modern history of illegibility, I will attempt to answer: What can the unreadable mean as an expressive resource?
topic	Illegibility poetics optical character recognition glitch machine learning
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The Knotted Sign: Poetics of Illegibility

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