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Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist
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This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore th
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Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is
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Ranging across artists from Raphael to Rothko, Caravaggio to Pollock, The Crossing of the Visible offers both a critique
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The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in m
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Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described “a one hundred per cent image-space.” Such an image space saturates our world
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