Johanna Drucker : From Now

"From Now continues the strain of my work that processes news and events through a locus of subjectivity as an organizing lens or principle. The project makes use of snippets, fragments, bits and pieces of different kinds of writing projects, most deliberately granting each autonomoy within a whole. The multiple spheres of language discourse each register in the structure and compositional mode, as well as the texture and graphic presentation of language. The 'now' this is 'from' is the lived and real, monstrous, grotesque, supersaturated with the noise of mass mediated culture, and yet, it is also the now of being, always, aware and present, in the midst of all that stimulation, what we are. Awareness shoots through the full world, and returns as a projection of self, that set of bounding and defining specifics that delineate a place as a profile, position, from which the world is made. So the curious codependent systems work. And language? Endlessly polyphonic, heteroglossic, multifaceted, varied in tone and vocabulary, look and sound, image and texture." Johanna Drucker

The book was designed by the author InDesign, a first effort, switch from Quark, using Agenda, then sent to the press as files, output and printed offset, with a letterpress cover that printed by Kyle Schlesinger in Buffalo, NY in 2005. 200 copies, numbered and signed by Drucker. 

PAPERBACK: 5.5x8.5 inches. 48 pages. 2005. 
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