De-Writing: A manifesto for the misuse of writing
Margot Mellet - Université de Montréal
@mellet_m

October 30 - Trent University

[a]s one knows without saying, we do not write anymore.



« There is no software » in The Truth of the Technological World, Kittler (1993)

Step [1] : Admit that you don't write anymore

The original question, "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.


Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing (1950)


Step [2] : Shift your perspective
Step [3] : Listening to the noise

I can’t understand why people only learn how to read and write the 26 letters of the alphabet. They should at least add the 10 digits, the integrals and the sinuses (…). They should also master two programming languages, in order to possess what, at the moment, constitutes culture.


Interview, Kittler

Step [4] : Master machine languages
Step [4+1] : Misuse of writing

Paint cannot be liberated until the brush has been broken up and thrown away and distance has been gained from it. Paint does not start to live until it is liberated from the brush.


The curse of the brush, Shimamoto (1957)

Writing by no longer writing

Thank you
Margot Mellet - Blank.blue - Université de Montréal
@mellet_m