i[ↄ]onic⁺ log

[ of expanded fields and other [textual] practices ]

Federico Federici

foreword by Nils Röller, afterword by Michael Betancourt

ISBN: 978-1-940853-41-3 paperback 154 pgs $16

ISBN: 978-1-940853-48-2 color harcover 154 pgs $40

i[ↄ]onic+ log is an exploration of the edges of language, where meaning does not settle but oscillates—charged, dispersed, and reconfigured. Federico Federici constructs a shifting landscape of asemic writing, physics, and conceptual poetics, where each fragment resists closure and yet compels the reader to engage with the text as a field of forces rather than a linear argument. Through a meticulous interplay of textual layers, footnotes, and signification-endings, the work extends beyond the page, enacting a syntax of disruptions that invites “engagement with scientific signs not primarily as tools for problem-solving, algorithmic handling, or learning processes, but as an opportunity to observe them and set them in dialogue with self-made signs" (Nils Röller), where meaning is never given but continuously re-negotiated and "the sign is the enigma of language" (Michael Betancourt). For those drawn to the interplay of literature, semiotics, and experimental writing, i[ↄ]onic+ log is not just a book—it is a space to inhabit, question, and return to.

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