Visual Grammatology

Hello, fellow Rhizome members;

Allow me to introduce myself: my name is John Morton, and I am a post-structural philosopher. Over the past decade, I have been applying my background from that field toward a deconstruction/reconstruction of the form(s) of non-metrical image writing used, in pre-Columbian times, by the First Nations of North America.

I've come up with some really interesting findings that may be of use to those of you here who work with visual arts, and multi-media. And of course, my work is quite "rhizomatic", as it has been heavily influenced by Gilles Deleuze (one of my university profs was Constantine V. Boundas).

You can have a look at the initial findings from my research at my web site, called "The Origin of Writing" and located at:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8281/

…where you'll find sections such as: "Interpreting Non-Metrical Image Writing", which presents a conversion of semiological concepts {as outlined in Felix Guattari's "The Role of the Signifier in the Institution" from MOLECULAR
REVOLUTION} into grammatological concepts {which are derived in part from Deleuze/Guattari's "What Is Philosophy"}; and an appended application of this interpretive methodology, which is used to reconstruct an ancient conceptual persona {using virtual points to define diagrammatic features, and partial objects to define intensive ordinates…which, taken together, define the 'substance of being' of the person who produced the example of non-metrical image writing so examined}.

In addition, there are lots of other interesting sections presenting numerous photographs drawn from my research… and quite a bit of accompanying text.

And remember: "A singularity is the localization of complexity; as such, it is always already a (sometimes, non-metrical) multiplicity rather than a unitary construct" (well, that's what I always say now)…
… because that is the sort of thing one needs to know when one begins to work with event horizons rather than perspectival horizons (an essential pre-requisite to my grammatological approach)!

Best Wishes,
John Morton.
P.S. (Please be patient with my site's limited data transfer allotment).