“Alphabets” highlights the link between language, at its inception, with the body and nature. It also evokes the historic process of abstraction that has transformed language into pure convention; a sign that takes the place of the real, dissolved into the mathematical function of a formula and algorithm that allows it to be manipulated infinitely, according to the logic of control and dominion that characterizes the age of the Anthropocene.
“Alphabets” is accompanied by the book of the same name: Alphabets 2020.
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