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The Contemporary ConditionNotes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits

Dexter Sinister - The Contemporary Condition
Three interconnected essays on typography.
Three interconnected palimpsest essays recount (1) the backstory of a “meta” font recently updated by Dexter Sinister and used to typeset the Contemporary Condition book series, (2) a broad history of the rationalization of letterforms that considers the same typeface from “a higher point of disinterest,” and (3) a pending proposal for a sundial designed to operate in parallel physical and digital realms. Along the way they contemplate the ambiguous nature of our shared idea of *time* itself.
This book is the volume 6 of “The Contemporary Condition” series, edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund and published with Aarhus University, and ARoS Art Museum (Denmark). The aim of the series is to question the formation of subjectivity and concept of temporality in the world now. It begins from the assumption that art, with its ability to investigate the present and make meaning from it, can lead to an understanding of wider developments within culture and society. Addressing a perceived gap in existing literature on the subject, the series focuses on three broad strands: the issue of temporality, the role of contemporary media and computational technologies, and how artistic practice makes epistemic claims.
Dexter Sinister is the compound name of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey, collapsing together distinctions of editing, design, production and distribution into one efficient activity.

See also Stuart Bailey; Bulletins of The Serving Library.
Edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund.

Published with Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum, Denmark.

Graphic design: Dexter Sinister.
 
published in November 2017
English edition
12 x 19 cm (softcover)
64 pages (12 b/w ill.)
 
8.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-95679-345-5
EAN : 9783956793455
 
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