{"id":2948,"date":"2013-01-06T16:50:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T21:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2013-01-06T16:50:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T21:50:38","slug":"radical-books-of-2012-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2013\/01\/radical-books-of-2012-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Books of 2012 (6\/7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;padding: 0 8px 8px 0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/book_from_the_ground.jpg\" alt=\"Book from the Ground\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h4>&middot; &rarr; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/man.svg\" height=\"25px\" width=\"25px\"> &rarr; &middot;<br \/>\nBook from the Ground<br \/>\nXu Bing<\/h4>\n<p>120 pages<\/p>\n<p>The dot of unconsciousness opens &#8211; and then winks out again. The book, one point in a project that Xu Bing has undertaken since 2003, is written entirely as a series of symbols, narrating a daily odyssey (or perhaps a <i>Ulysses<\/i>) that is read left-to-right and from top to bottom but almost entirely without the use of words or letters &#8211; they only appear as part of logos and the like. Symbols derived from Neurath&#8217;s Isotype system, which led to today&#8217;s airport signs, are used alongside emoticons and computer icons to describe the workplace experiences, fraternal beverage consumption, dating, and insomniac video game play of a rather harried, forgetful, busy, and not particularly productive generic man who lives in a city located on [globe icon]. By borrwing a bit from comic conventions within this typographical framework, not only actions but also thoughts and the topics of discussions are depcited <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenfrug.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/xu-bings-book-from-ground.html\">(to me, at least)<\/a> legibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&middot; &rarr; &rarr; &middot; Book from the Ground Xu Bing 120 pages The dot of unconsciousness opens &#8211; and then winks out again. The book, one point in a project that Xu Bing has undertaken since 2003, is written entirely as a series of symbols, narrating a daily odyssey (or perhaps a Ulysses) that is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2013\/01\/radical-books-of-2012-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radical Books of 2012 (6\/7)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,12,18,7],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1k","tag-art","tag-books","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}