Abstract writing

Palimpsest Asemic Correspondence by Cecil Touchon Ink on antique (1920's) Mexican Geography Journal

Posts about asemic writing written by Nancy Bell Scott

Cecil Touchon

The heated comment thread on HTMLGIANT that came up when Michael Jacobson’s new book, The Giant’s Fence, was mentioned, raises a great point about how we approach language. Jacobson advocates a form of writing that he calls “asemic writing”—that is, writing with no semantic content. No one stares at a canvas of abstract art expecting to “read” a message. But when a book of asemic writing is presented, some people gripe and blow it off as a gimmick because there is nothing

Asemic WritingDo you remember when you first heard about asemic writing, and what impelled you to take it up?I have been making asemic works long before there was a name for it since as far back as the 1970's. An…

The following article will introduce what is an abstract, when and how to write an abstract in an essay with 6 easy steps.

Learn how to do asemic writing and how to incorporate it into mixed media or abstract art.

Adapted from Wikipedia Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content.” With the nons…

This weblog explores asemic writing in relation to post-literate culture

Artwork. Poetry and artwork - Henry Denander