Workshop Presentation Post-Synthesis
Was the dash a typographic standard? He used it in his manuscripts:
And I wonder if he used it in his typescripts, as well. (How many typescripts do we even have of the period?) Or was it an invention of his stenographer, who used it to mark his spasmodic interruptions in locution.
Technology makes for nervous writing, as Kittler seems to suggest. With typing in particular (I am applying this to my knowledge and use of the keyboard) you have the impression of having more control, because you are able to write so many things at such a quick time. You have the feeling you can do it all, immediately, cutting time short. However, it can also create the impression of a loss of control -- because you type so quickly, it almost feels like an ecstasy, writing non-stop, kind of like (how I imagine) driving a car and letting go of control is. Slips, errors, mistakes; you don't take the time to round your word. Your letters go quicker than your mind sometimes; this can create for a lot of slippage.
Plan of action is to look at the shift in dash usage, which evidently changes as we notice from the intro of BoT, and compare and contrast with his use of the typewriter.
PLAN
Locale: University of Basel, late 19th century. Nietzsche, Wölfflin, Burckhardt.
Expositio: the use of the dash transforms and transmutes. Technological tools become teaching tools.
Peripeteia:
Lysis:
Technology makes for nervous writing, as Kittler seems to suggest. With typing in particular (I am applying this to my knowledge and use of the keyboard) you have the impression of having more control, because you are able to write so many things at such a quick time. You have the feeling you can do it all, immediately, cutting time short. However, it can also create the impression of a loss of control -- because you type so quickly, it almost feels like an ecstasy, writing non-stop, kind of like (how I imagine) driving a car and letting go of control is. Slips, errors, mistakes; you don't take the time to round your word. Your letters go quicker than your mind sometimes; this can create for a lot of slippage.
Plan of action is to look at the shift in dash usage, which evidently changes as we notice from the intro of BoT, and compare and contrast with his use of the typewriter.
PLAN
Locale: University of Basel, late 19th century. Nietzsche, Wölfflin, Burckhardt.
Expositio: the use of the dash transforms and transmutes. Technological tools become teaching tools.
Peripeteia:
Lysis:
Workshop Presentation Synthesis
Nietzsche's dash or rope spans the abyss of unmeaning, from top to top of seemingly unrelated mountains of meaning. The artist, trapeze artists, acrobat, Künstler walks this tightrope, this dash, spanning tops of mountains of meaning.
The Alps are sublime. Cameo by Germanwings.
In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss.
That this rope translates typographically to the dash, and that the proverbs are the peaks --
Photos by V.G.
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