Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all
— Velvet Underground & Nico
1967 in Sunday Morning, written by John Cale & Lou Reed
Apothegms Claims Forebodings. Loves Cries Angers.
An undercurrent of Culture2021 appears and disappears in hyper-public sediments and erosions. A visual lexicon I have called VEXICON envisions the domain of language art inhabiting streets, walls, poles, sidewalks, underpassages. VEXICON tilts attention to The News as the Immediate Real now and again fading into gauzy past.
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As regards signs, I see clearly that it is in the interest of the Republic of Letters and especially of students, that learned men should reach agreement on signs.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, 1696.
Leibnitz, one of the major developers of mathematical notations, cited by Margaret Mead, 1968.
Previously...
VEXICON 2: Signs as signs as signals. January 25, 2021
https://rockartoregon.blogspot.com/2021/01/vexicon-2-signs-as-signs-as-signals.html
VEXICON: Signs of the Times 2020. October 9, 2020
https://rockartoregon.blogspot.com/2020/10/vexicon-signs-of-times.html
