Publisher Note
By way of archiving, digital translation and reproduction, Philip Poppek extracts from Magritte’s word paintings twenty-six letters; segmental symbols of a textual system form an alphabet of a, with a familiar apple punctuating a provisional end to the sequence. A poetic correspondence with the letter a speculates on the prehistory of this alphabet, as though searching for some indication as to how we may have come to where we are now, in this ‘post-factual moment’.
Maybe at some point we fell into the foxes’ den, only to re-surface in a landscape of ruins. This book poses a number of necessary questions, perhaps beginning with: ‘Which feminine noun trails after the title script ‘est pas une?
Pomme? Pipe? Histoire? Communauté?
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| Release Place | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| Edition | 1st edition |
| Release Date | June 2020 |
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| Printrun | 500 |
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ISBN-13:
978-94-93148-33-8
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| Language | English, German |
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| Format | Softcover |
