Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.55.0306150123460.20269@panix1.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Philosophy Essay: Today's Thousand Character Essay News
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:23:57 -0400 (EDT)
Philosophy Essay: Today's Thousand Character Essay News Given that the Thousand Character Essay is a case-study in nominalist style, each character in an fX -> (X,i) mapping, indexed by i (equals relative position), a continuous translation into a relatively redundant graphemic system is impossible if the stipulation is observed. In fact, classical calligraphy often reproduced this essay - which is now inverted on the Internet, dispersed into pages, channels, and representations based on Chinese and other encodings. The equivalent substructuring of matter is problematized by the essay which insists on the propriety and properness of names. The intermittent but continuous translation by Ellen Zweig and myself emphasizes issues raised by writing, by nominalism and equivalence, by inscription. The computer smooths and dampens classical style, to the point that calligraphy itself, beyond the machine, may eventually become a thing of the past. Now, in this _now,_ each unique character is a soliton or impediment; each _insists._ The text below documents this insistence across the Net. Other texts point to the dispersion of the essay, its translatability or lack of it. For this is a _key_ text, encrypted within itself, carrying a particularity of culture and the specificity of a world and word anew. "Harrassowitz Verlag","http://www.harrassowitz.de/verlag/Turkic/TL5.html"," ... Jahrgang 5 (2001) Heft 1 und 2 EUR 91,- [D] / sFr 154,-. ... M. Shogaito, A. Yakup, Four Uyghur fragments of Qian-zi-wen âThousand Character Essayâ (Addendum). ... " "Title","http://e-texts.org/title.html"," ... D: Da Zhao - The Great Summons ; Dajiang 1 ; Dajiang 2 ; Dao De ... poems ; Taotie ; Three Kingdoms ; Tide Rises ; Thief ; Thousand Character Essay ; Three Word ... " "New Additions to China the Beautiful","http://www.chinapage.com/new.html"," ... Ph. D. Selling a donkey 9-11-2002; Book by Mencius [UTF-8] 9-10-2002; Picture of the ... Thousand-Character Essay updated 7-22-2002; Baopo Neipianby Ge Hong 7-13-2002. ... " "Aspen: Index","http://www.ubu.com/aspen/siteIndex.html"," ... 13. Daniel Kunin, pianist. Audio: Prelude D Flat Major, Op. 11, No. ... Wen Cheng-min, Calligraphy from "The Ten Thousand Character Essay", Wilbourn, Dale, Triptych, ... " "artsflow: ASPEN MAGAZINE interpreted for the Web","http://artsflow.ezone.org/dam/2002/11/15/aspen_magazine_- interpreted_for_the_web.html"," ... Audio: Prelude D Flat Major, Op ... Comment on 200 Campbell Soup Cans Kiss Flipbook Wen Cheng-min, Calligraphy from "The Ten Thousand Character Essay" Wilbourn, Dale ... " "artsflow: ASPEN MAGAZINE interpreted for the Web","http://artsflow.ezone.org/dam/000081.html"," ... Audio: Prelude D Flat Major, Op ... Comment on 200 Campbell Soup Cans Kiss Flipbook Wen Cheng-min, Calligraphy from "The Ten Thousand Character Essay" Wilbourn, Dale ... " "artsflow: November 2002 Archives","http://artsflow.ezone.org/dam/2002_11.html"," ... Audio: Prelude D Flat Major, Op ... Comment on 200 Campbell Soup Cans Kiss Flipbook Wen Cheng-min, Calligraphy from "The Ten Thousand Character Essay" Wilbourn, Dale ... " "artsflow: November 2002 Archives","http://artsflow.ezone.org/dam/2002/11/index.html%0D%0A"," ... Audio: Prelude D Flat Major, Op ... Comment on 200 Campbell Soup Cans Kiss Flipbook Wen Cheng-min, Calligraphy from "The Ten Thousand Character Essay" Wilbourn, Dale ... " "Chinese Art - Calligraphy (www.chinaknowledge.org)","http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Art/Painting- /calligraphy.htm"," ... Wang Xun çæ´µ (d.401) is a distant relative of Wang Xizhi and also ... He created the grass script Thousand Character Essay Zhencao Qianziwen çèååæ. ... " "Chinese Art - Calligraphy (www.chinaknowledge.org)","http://www.chinaknowledge.org/Art/Painting- /calligraphy.htm"," ... Wang Xun çæ´µ (d.401) is a distant relative of Wang Xizhi and also ... He created the grass script Thousand Character Essay Zhencao Qianziwen çèååæ. ... " ___