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<title><![CDATA[Tlön, Uqbar i el Codex Seraphinianus]]></title>
<link>http://espaidellibres.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/tlon-uqbar-i-el-codex-seraphinianus/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Espai de llibres</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;entrada d&#8217;avui té poca lletra i molta imatge. La història la podeu llegir sencera en a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">L&#8217;entrada d&#8217;avui té poca lletra i molta imatge. La història la podeu llegir sencera <a href="http://www.believermag.com/issues/200705/?read=article_taylor" target="_blank">en aquest fantàstic article</a> de la revista <a href="http://www.believermag.com/" target="_blank">The Believer</a>, i també, amb no tanta gràcia però en bon castellà, <a href="http://www.elpais.com/psp/index.php?module=elp_pdapsp&#38;page=elp_pda_noticia&#38;idNoticia=20071111elpepspag_13.Tes&#38;seccion=cul" target="_blank">en aquest article</a> de <em>El País</em> i  <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus" target="_blank">en aquest raconet</a> de la Wikipedia.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Què és el <em><strong>Codex Seraphinianus</strong></em>? Si m&#8217;ho pregunteu a mi, us diré que penseu en <em><a href="http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/cuentos/esp/borges/tlon.htm" target="_blank">Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis tertius</a></em>, aquell conte meravellós de <a href="http://espaidellibres.wordpress.com/tag/borges/" target="_blank">Borges</a> en el qual un grup d&#8217;homes amb molta cultura i massa temps lliure  s&#8217;associaven per imaginar, primer, un país fictici, i després tot un planeta al qual donaven vida escrivint-ne una enciclopèdia sencera sobre ell; us diré que penseu en l&#8217;argument d&#8217;aquest conte de Borges i després subtituiu aquell grup d&#8217;homes cultes i avorrits per un únic home, un artista i arquitecte italià anomenat <a href="http://www.geocities.com/brianmdavies/serafini/index.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Luigi Serafini</strong></a>. O millor encara: us diré que penseu en Borges escrivint no un conte sobre els somniadors enciclopèdics de Tlön, sinó l&#8217;enciclopèdia mateixa. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Heu sentit a parlar mai del <a href="http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrit_Voynich" target="_blank">manuscrit Voynich</a>? Us agraden els llibres escrits en una llengua que ningú en aquest planeta pot llegir? Teniu sis-cents dòlars a la butxaca i no sabeu <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Codex-Seraphinianus-Luigi-Serafini/dp/B001XWH35E/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1256049715&#38;sr=1-2" target="_blank">què fer-ne d&#8217;ells</a>? Doncs no ho dubteu ni un segon: aquest és el vostre llibre.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Mireu, mireu:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2882" title="codex1" src="http://espaidellibres.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/codex1.jpg" alt="codex1" width="300" height="453" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2883" title="codex2" src="http://espaidellibres.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/codex2.jpg" alt="codex2" width="425" height="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2884" title="codex3" src="http://espaidellibres.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/codex3.jpg" alt="codex3" width="300" height="467" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2885" title="codex4" src="http://espaidellibres.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/codex4.jpg" alt="codex4" width="300" height="439" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2886" title="codex5" src="http://espaidellibres.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/codex5.jpg" alt="codex5" width="300" height="436" /></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Com d&#8217;estrany i misteriós pot arribar a ser un llibre quan el seu autor encara és viu i es troba connectat a internet? La pregunta, molt pertinent, se la fa Justin Taylor al seu article de <em>The Believer.</em> Crec que ni ell ni jo en tenim la resposta; però aquestes fotos, no m&#8217;ho negareu, són molt maques.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Strange Manuscripts]]></title>
<link>http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/strange-manuscripts/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jannekeadema1979</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Where I discussed the concept of post literacy (described by Wikipedia as a stage ‘wherein multimedi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1141" title="voynich" src="http://openreflections.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/voynich.jpg" alt="voynich" width="210" height="294" />Where I discussed the concept of <em>post literacy</em> (described by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postliterate_society">Wikipedia</a> as a stage ‘wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary’) <a href="http://openreflections.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/post-literacy/">before</a> (after which John Connell wrote a nice reply on his <a href="http://www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/?p=2251">blog</a>, followed by some insightful comments), I have grown more interested in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing">asemic writing</a> in combination with visual communication. Wikipedia gives a very nice definition and characterization of asemic writing, where it states for instance that the interpretation or meaning giving to asemic writing lies not within <em>the writing</em> (containing no semantic content) but with (-in) <em>the viewer</em>, in which respect it can be compared with abstract art: ‘with the non specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. All of this is similar to the way one would deduce meaning from an abstract work of art’.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Two manuscripts, one old and one not quite so old, have been brought to my attention lately (thanks to <a href="http://drabkikker.wordpress.com/">drabkikker</a>) in which the language and writing has (until now) been undeciphered. The first and oldest one, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript">Voynich manuscript</a> (named after its discoverer Wilfrid M. Voynich), probably written in the 15<sup>th</sup> or 16<sup>th</sup> century, has already been called one of the greatest mysteries in the world (see for instance <a href="http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_13.htm">here</a>) and still puzzles cryptographers all over the world. The Voynich manuscript is also heavily illustrated, amongst others with &#8211; as vividly <a href="http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_13.htm">described</a> &#8211; ‘tiny naked women frolicking in bathtubs connected by intricate plumbing looking more like anatomical parts than hydraulic contraptions’. Judge for yourself underneath.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="voynich-partof_f78r" src="http://openreflections.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/voynich-partof_f78r.jpg" alt="voynich-partof_f78r" width="355" height="274" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Although many theories exist about the origin, history and meaning of the manuscript, some believe it is a hoax and the manuscript contains no meaningful information in any way. But on another level, this might not be the most important ‘message’ the work has to convey. Looked at it as a work of art, it is a beautiful and fascinating work, with a very concise, fair and lovely script as you can see for yourself <a href="http://awesta.sibirjak.ru/files/Voynich.pdf">here</a>, were you can actually download the whole manuscript as a PDF. Its mystery and unclear meaning is in this case what makes it meaningful to the viewer as interpreter, as ‘meaning-searcher’.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1147" title="codex00" src="http://openreflections.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/codex00.jpg" alt="codex00" width="360" height="245" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A more recent manuscript is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus">Codex Seraphinianus</a>, an equally amazing book with fantastic absurdist surreal pictures and an also still undeciphered alphabet and language. It depicts an imaginary world and was written and illustrated in 1978 by the Italian artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Serafini">Luigi Serafini</a>. The codex is a sort of visual encyclopedia, a transcendental experience into a fantastic genius mind. I like the way Serafini seems to have actually stated, according to Wikipedia, that the script of the <em>Codex</em> is <a title="Asemic writing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing">asemic</a>, ‘that his own experience in writing it was closely similar to automatic writing, and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey to the &#8216;reader&#8217; is the sensation that children feel in front of books they cannot yet understand, although they see that their writing does make sense for grown-ups.’</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1142" title="codex_seraphinianus" src="http://openreflections.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/codex_seraphinianus.jpg" alt="codex_seraphinianus" width="360" height="237" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">And still… Although the author claims the script in the codex is asemic and it contains no meaning, the manuscript stays a fascinating enigma for many people. It is exactly the lack of meaning, meaning as or in a void, that triggers the imagination.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><img class="alignright" title="Codex Seraphinianus" src="http://openreflections.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/codex-seraphinianus.jpg" alt="Codex Seraphinianus" width="180" height="262" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This vacuum of meaning creates potential: it creates a space for interpretation and functions as a reflection of our search for patterns and meaning. It thus offers a meta level in a way, similar to what abstract art does: it is about <em>the search for meaning</em>, about wanting to discover the secret context and inherent patterns in the structure of the text, like in a way abstract art is a reflection on art itself. Asemic writing can thus be seen as a form of meta-writing, or abstract writing. And this is what makes it so interesting and filled with meaning: its reflection (through means of the interpretational intent of the viewer) on what language is, and on the function of language as a means or medium of communication.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[saturday flash fiction, "colt .45"]]></title>
<link>http://surrealisticsharks.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/saturday-flash-fiction-colt-45/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Colt .45&#8243; by C.B. Robertson My stalker was an American woman. With bleached blond hair ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:right;"><strong>&#8220;Colt .45&#8243;</strong> by C.B. Robertson</p>
<p>My stalker was an American woman. With bleached blond hair in her mid thirties. I first saw her at the Hole in the Wall. I was puffing from one of Bill&#8217;s handrolled cigars and drinking rum punches by myself at the bar. She walked over and ordered a Port Royal. We ate beef tenderloin and lobster beside each other on a waterlogged bench with a group of schoolteachers from San Antonio.</p>
<p>She was at the swimming pool too that afternoon. And by the lagoon the next day under the shadows of the palm frond cabana drinking margaritas on the rocks. She always had on a pair of designer sunglasses, so I never even knew the color of her eyes. The roots of her hair were brown and splayed out in front like mangrove trees.</p>
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<p>I was eating broccoli and cabbage in those days. I craved testosterone like a young boy. I feared, perhaps, that I was losing it all in tears. If that explains my predicament better.</p>
<p>My hair was long and dirty like a hippies. I would pull it back in some awkward approximation of a ponytail, and hadn&#8217;t shaved in months. Since my girlfriend died I guess. When I came here to Rat Island to try and find a liquor or shark that might eat all my memories away.</p>
<p>But my stalker and I were walking. Along the nature path at Cocoa Beach. Both miserable with memories intact. The last time I saw her.</p>
<p>She had been following me for some time. Trying to hide behind trees and mostly keeping out of sight like you might see in a movie. I thought it was strange but it was three in the afternoon. And I was carrying a bottle of el himador tequila in one hand. Drunkenly stumbling through the jungle, so I didn&#8217;t think that I had any kind of right to question someone else&#8217;s sanity.</p>
<p>She finally came out of hiding when I screamed.</p>
<p>There was a crocodile in the path. I considered lying down. But I was worried she might try to help, so I ran.</p>
<p>I ran and she ran. My stalker and I both screaming. A guard came down the hill on his bike carrying a colt. 45 on his right hip. The crocodile was closing in and he pulled out the gun and aimed behind us. My stalker fell to the ground, and bled all over the brick paved concrete.</p>
<p>Before she hit the ground, the guard reacted. Loading another round into the chamber from the front pocket of his polo shirt and firing at me. He shot the crocodile last.</p>
<p>Gasping for air in the red grass, I considered the possibility that the three of us might merge together like I saw once on the cover of the codex seraphinianus.  We could escape.  But the guard dragged us back into the swamps in a blue wheelbarrow.</p>
<p>And the crocodile, my stalker, and I sank. Smiling under the salt.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[El Codex Seraphinianus]]></title>
<link>http://yonoveotele.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/el-codex-seraphinianus/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Barkach</dc:creator>
<guid>http://yonoveotele.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/el-codex-seraphinianus/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Todas estas páginas que van a ver, o están viendo, son parte del &#8220;Codex Seraphinianus&#8220;, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a id="siguiente_foto" title="Siguiente" href="http://www.elpais.com/fotografia/cocodrilos/elpdiasoc/20071111elpepspag_3/Ies/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20071111elpepspag_3/XLCO/Ies/20071111elpepspag_3.jpg" alt="Una de cocodrilos" /></a></p>
<p>Todas estas páginas que van a ver, o están viendo, son parte del &#8220;<strong>Codex Seraphinianus</strong>&#8220;, un libro escrito e ilustrado por un italiano medio loco, medio genio llamado  <a class="new" title="Luigi Serafini (aún no redactado)" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luigi_Serafini&#38;action=edit&#38;redlink=1">Luigi Serafini</a>. El libro está escrito es idioma codex, un dialecto 100% inventado, que algunos criptógrafos y especialistas señalan que puede que tenga algún significado.</p>
<p><a href="http://peteashton.com/images/codex_seraphinianus.jpg"><img style="display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;width:378px;height:250px;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="http://peteashton.com/images/codex_seraphinianus.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Luigi Serafini, sin embargo, se niega a señalar qué trato de decir, al menos eso estipula su testamento, en el cual indica que el libro será explicado después de su muerte.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dimka.com.ua/lj/codex.jpg"><img style="display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;width:320px;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="http://www.dimka.com.ua/lj/codex.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Este libro es, al final de cuentas, un objeto de estudio indispensable tanto para criptólogos como para nosotros los creativos, por el conjunto tan inusual de temas y la manera mágica y bizarra como el autor los retrata.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Tomado de muchas páginas y de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus">Wikipedia</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Codex Seraphinianus]]></title>
<link>http://timecanvas.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/codex-seraphinianus/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>timecanvas</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian architect and industrial de]]></description>
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<p>The <em><strong>Codex Seraphinianus</strong></em> is a book written and illustrated by the Italian architect and industrial designer <a title="Luigi Serafini" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Serafini">Luigi Serafini</a> during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978.</p>
<p>The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown <a title="World" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World">world</a>, written in one of its <a title="Language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language">languages</a>, a thus-far undeciphered alphabetic writing.</p>
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus">Wikipedia</a></p>
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<link>http://glucoze.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/rearranged-to-resemble/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Translation anyone?!!! I don&#8217;t even have a clue of what language this is..]]></description>
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<p>Translation anyone?!!! I don&#8217;t even have a clue of what language this is..</p>
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<title><![CDATA[O przyzwoitości]]></title>
<link>http://pytania.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/o-przyzwoitosci/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Tatuś niegdyś cenionego, a nawet powszechnie czytanego poety zwykł mawiać: „Kiedy nie wiesz, jak się zachować, zachowuj się przyzwoicie”. Jakże lubimy takie okrągłe, porażające swą prostotą zdania. Wpisujemy je do naszego wewnętrznego sztambucha, polerujemy szmatką dobrego samopoczucia i wiedząc nareszcie swoje, już jako lepsi ludzie, ruszamy przed siebie z troszeczkę bardziej podniesionym czołem, niosąc nieoświeconym kaganek oświaty. To co ładne i efektowne zasługuje na szczególną uwagę. Pochylmy się zatem nad cytatem-drogowskazem z należną mu uwagą i troską.<br />
Przyzwoitość jest pojęciem jedynie na pierwszy rzut oka łatwym do zdefiniowania. Potocznie kojarzona ona bywa z postępowaniem zgodnym z hierarchią powszechnie uznanych i obowiązujących akurat wierzeń i wartości. Aby nie pozostać gołosłownym, posłużmy się najlepiej ogólnie znanymi przykładami z historii powszechnej. Bezsensowne marnotrawstwo było na przykład – i jak się wydaje słusznie &#8211; od czasów zamierzchłych powszechnie uznawane za nieprzyzwoite. Dla takiego dajmy na to Attylli, aka Bicz Boży, nader przyzwoitym było zastąpienie bezsensownego mordowania kobiet i dziatek o wiele bardziej spektakularnym i przynoszącym jego otoczeniu uciechę rozrywaniem końmi. Z punktu widzenia Girolamo Savonaroli natomiast, należało uchronić dobrych chrześcijan przed widokiem gołych bab namalowanych na płótnie, rozpasaniem wynikającym z mycia zębów oraz noszenia wygodnych ubrań albo co gorsza biżuterii. Dostrzegł to nawet Boticcelli, który do płonącego na Piazza de Signoria stosu ochoczo dorzucił swe najpiękniejsze obrazy. W swym dążeniu do przyzwoitości absolutnej, dobry ten i skromny mnich, nie ugiął się konsekwentnie aż do swego niewesołego końca, ani szykanom kościelnym ani świeckim. Nieprzeliczone były zastępy rycerzy przyzwoitości. Przedsiębiorczy angielscy żeglarze, pochylając się z troską nad ciężkim losem amerykańskiego farmera, nie pozostawali obojętni, lecz jako dobrzy chrześcijanie, mimo ewidentnych trudów i grożących niebezpieczeństw, dbali przez 200 lat z okładem o urozmaicenie etniczne Nowego Swiata, przewożąc dzielnie przez ocean materiał ludzki pozyskany u zachodnich wybrzeży Afryki. Należy zaznaczyć, że materiał nie tylko nie doceniał troski o postęp cywilizacyjny, lecz unikał przewiezienia i w swej krnąbrności masowo umierał pod pokładem nie bacząc na straty jakie ponosili biali dobroczyńcy. Jednym z najbardziej znanych nowożytnych zwolenników przyzwoitości był np. niejaki Jean Jacques Rousseau. Nie mogąc znieść autorytarnych i opartych na przemocy metod wychowania dzieci stosowanych przez współczesnych mu, nieoświeconych jeszcze bliźnich, postanowił poświęcić swój cenny czas na stworzenie dzieła poświęconego wychowaniu zgodnemu z naturą, które to dzieło, nie tylko przeszło do historii ludzkiej przyzwoitości, lecz po dziś dzień uznawane jest za podstawę nowoczesnej pedagogiki. Ponieważ własne rozliczne dziatki przeszkadzały by mu w pracy twórczej, polecił żonie oddać je po urodzeniu do przytułku, gdzie zgodnie z panującą wówczas modą zaraz sobie zmarły. I tak można w nieskończoność, aż po dzisiejsze czasy.<br />
Przeświadczenie, że zawsze mamy wybór pomiędzy dobrem a złem, jest co prawda nie pozbawione pewnego uroku, ale jakże naiwne. Przeważnie wybieramy pomiędzy złem które rozumiemy a złem którego nie potrafimy dostrzec. Wszystko wskazuje na to, że rzecz ma się analogicznie również z dobrem.<br />
I tutaj możemy uciec się do bardziej obrazowej metafory. Przeważnie dokonujemy wyboru pomiędzy interpretacją szóstego rozdziału Codex Seraphinianus i tekstu zawartego w Manuskrypcie Woynicha. Ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem 32 stron tego ostatniego. Ale to już zupełnie inna historia i zgodnie z wpojonym poczuciem przyzwoitości oszczędzimy jej zmęczonym zapewne już czytelnikom tzn. będziemy nią zanudzać kiedy indziej.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Codex Seraphinianus, de Luigi Serafini]]></title>
<link>http://loslibros.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/codex-seraphinianus-de-luigi-serafini/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Toronaga</dc:creator>
<guid>http://loslibros.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/codex-seraphinianus-de-luigi-serafini/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hoy os presento un libro que es una pequeña joya, este blog dedicado a los libros no tiene que estar]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>Hoy os presento un libro que es una pequeña joya, este blog dedicado a los libros no tiene que estar siempre ocupado en novelas, ensayos o cuentos, sino que también hay la posibilidad de que se reseñen otra clase de libros, que por su temática, mejor dicho por su no temática, son inclasificables, no encajan en ningún apartado literario, y que yo considero que deben de ser vistos como obras de arte, debido a la imaginación de sus autores. Y este es el caso del <strong>Codex Seraphinianus</strong>, de Luigi Serafini, arquitecto italiano de gran renombre, que un buen día cogió unos lápices de colores y se invento una enciclopedia sobre un mundo inventado, con un idioma totalmente también inventado y no descifrado, aunque muchos criptólogos intentan ver algo oculto.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>Esta dividido en varios capítulos que son</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>El primero describe una flora extraña.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>El segundo dedicado a la fauna, con animales surrealistas con forma de caballo, rinoceronte, aves.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>El tercero se trata de un reino aparte.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>El cuarto trata de algo que puede ser física o química<span> </span>o no.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>El quinto de máquinas y vehículos extraños.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>Y así hasta once capítulos a cada uno más extraño. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>Todos ellos ilustrados con bellísimas imágenes con unos colores soberbios que hace que todos los amantes de los libros le gustaría poseer un ejemplar.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><span>Fue hecha una primera edición de lujo, en el año 1981 firmada por el autor y numerada, siendo la edición de 3999 ejemplares. Gente como Italo Calvino, Borges, incluso Tim Burton, que adquirió uno de ellos, quedaron impresionados por este trabajo artístico.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="postbody"><span>Algunas páginas se pueden ver en </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="postbody"><a href="http://www.almaleh.com/codex-e.htm">http://www.almaleh.com/codex-e.htm</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FICHA:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Editorial: Franco María Ricci</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Lugar: Milan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Año: 1981</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Edición<span> </span>1º</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nº: 3899</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>2 Tomos ISBN 88-216-0026-2 y ISBN88-216-0027-0</span></p>
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<link>http://brokenbike.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/the-codex-seraphinianus-the-weirdest-book-ever/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever since I first read about The Codex I have been intrigued. To me it looks like an insane anthrop]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Ever since I first read about The Codex I have been intrigued. To me it looks like an insane anthropological study of some culture that never existed. <img class="alignright" style="float:right;" src="http://www.archimedes-lab.org/Serafi/sera_arcenciel.jpg" alt="" width="314" height="244" /> <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;">The <em>Codex                 Seraphinianus</em> was written and illustrated by Italian graphic                 designer and architect, <strong>Luigi Serafini</strong> during                 the late 1970&#8217;s. The <em>Codex</em> is a lavishly produced book                 that purports to be an encyclopedia for an imaginary world in                 a parallel universe, with copious comments in an incomprehensible                 language. It is written in a florid script, entirely invented                 and completely illegible, and illustrated with watercolor paintings.                 The <em>Codex</em> is divided into a number of sections (each                 with its own table of contents, the page numbers are in base-21                 or base-22!) on subjects such as plants, animals, inhabitants,                 machines, clothing, architecture, numbers, cards, chemical analyses,                 labyrinth, Babel, foods&#8230; There are panoramic scenes of incomprehensible                 festivals, and diagrams of plumbing! </span><img class="alignright" style="float:right;" src="http://www.archimedes-lab.org/Serafi/sera1F.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="407" /></p>
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The <em>Codex</em> is to that imaginary world what Diderot&#8217;s Encyclopedia is to ours. Obviously, Serafini was not just attempting to create a consistent alternate world. Rather, the <em>Codex</em> is sort of an elaborate parody of the real world.</span></p>
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The invented script of the book imitates the Western-style writing systems (left-to-right writing in rows; an alphabet with uppercase and lowercase; probably a separate set of symbols for writing numerals) but is much more curvilinear reminding some Semitic scripts. The writing seems to have been designed to <em>appear</em>, but not actually be, meaningful, like the <a href="http://www.archimedes-lab.org/voynich.html" target="_self">Voynich Manuscript</a>.<br />
At is best, the <em>Codex Seraphinianus</em> is really diverting and surrealist; at its worst, it is tedious, kitsch, and childish. This book was surely inspired by the <a href="http://www.archimedes-lab.org/voynich.html" target="_self">Voynich Manuscript</a> and designed with the spirit of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch" target="_self">Hieronymus Bosch</a> in mind.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#996600;font-size:x-small;">ACQUIRING                 THE <em>CODEX </em></span><a href="http://www.archimedes-lab.org/Serafi/C_serafini.html#top"><img src="http://www.archimedes-lab.org/im_navpics2/redArrow_top.gif" border="0" alt="TOP" width="20" height="7" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:xx-small;"><a title="click to order" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/8821600262/archimelabpuz-20" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.archimedes-lab.org/Serafi/sera_codexcouv.gif" border="0" alt="Codex Seraphinius Book Cover" hspace="5" vspace="2" width="65" height="100" align="left" /></a></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"><em>Codex                 Seraphinianus</em> is a rare and expensive book, it can be ordered                 from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/8821600262/archimelabpuz-20" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>.                 If you want to see the <em>Codex</em> without paying that much,                 try your local library. University libraries should have it.                 The Library of Congress number is PN6381.S4 1983.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.archimedes-lab.org/Serafi/sera_junkpeople.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="276" /></p>
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<link>http://newpixels.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/the-big-01/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>New Pixels</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Hello and thanks for finding me. This is my first post and im still kind of finding my feet so bare ]]></description>
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<p>This is my first post and im still kind of finding my feet so bare with me if some things are a mess or just dont work, but i&#8217;ll get there.</p>
<p>Anyway. I was recently asked to take some photographs for a friends band in the practise room that me and a lot of my friends use. There called MASS (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/massmassmass">www.myspace.com/massmassmass</a>) and they really are an epic band. I&#8217;ll put a couple of pics up here but you can see some more on their myspace.</p>
<p><a href="http://newpixels.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/mass-2.jpg" title="mass-2.jpg"><img src="http://newpixels.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/mass-2.thumbnail.jpg" alt="mass-2.jpg" /></a>  <a href="http://newpixels.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/mass-3.jpg" title="mass-3.jpg"><img src="http://newpixels.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/mass-3.thumbnail.jpg" alt="mass-3.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>These were taken a few days ago, but today ive been reading a few bits from a book i read about on Thomas Hoopers blog (<a href="http://thomashooper.wordpress.com/">http://thomashooper.wordpress.com/</a>) called the Codex Seraphinianus. A book written and illustrated by the Italian architect and industrial designer <a href="http://newpixels.wordpress.com/wiki/Luigi_Serafini" title="Luigi Serafini">Luigi Serafini</a> during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. The book is approximately 360 pages long and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, an incomprehensible (at least for us) alphabetic writing.</p>
<p>freaky deeky.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Codex Seraphinianus : un llibre rar i enigmàtic en exposició]]></title>
<link>http://blocdelletres.ub.edu/2007/12/05/codex-seraphinianus-un-llibre-rar-i-enigmatic-en-exposicio/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>blocdelletres</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[El Codex seraphinianus es una mena d’enciclopèdia d&#8217;unes 400 pàgines, escrita en un alfabet in]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>El <strong><em>Codex seraphinianus</em></strong> es una mena d’enciclopèdia d&#8217;unes 400 pàgines, escrita en un alfabet inventat d’inspiració semítica que descriu un univers imaginari i al·lucinogen.</p>
<p>Profusament il·lustrada, consta d&#8217;11 capítols que tracten diferents matèries: la flora, la fauna, les màquines, la física, etc.; així com diferents aspectes de la vida humana en aquest món fascinant (com ara la indumentària, la cuina, o l&#8217;arquitectura).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://blocdelletres.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/codex.gif" alt="codex.gif" /></p>
<p>El seu autor, <strong><a href="http://eclipsi.bib.ub.es/cgi-bin/vtls.web.gateway.20?authority=0702-87480&#38;conf=080000++++++++++++++" title="enllaç al catàleg"><font color="#3c659e">Luigi Serafini</font></a></strong>, és un arquitecte italià. Va començar el manuscrit a la tornada d’una estada a Califòrnia. Li va dedicar 30 mesos, entre 1976 i 1978. Havent finalitzat el llibre, el va oferir a diferents editors que, desconcertats per una obra tan inclassificable, el van rebutjar. Per fortuna el <em>Codex</em> va caure a les mans de <strong>Franco Maria Ricci</strong>, el millor editor de llibres d’art i bibliofília de l’època, que no el va deixar escapar i el va editar en dos volums el 1981.</p>
<p>Des d&#8217;aleshores l’interès pel <em>Codex</em> no ha deixat d&#8217;anar en augment i sobre ell han escrit, entre d’altres, <strong>Roland Barthes</strong>, <strong>Federico Fellini</strong> o <strong>Italo Calvino</strong>.<br />
<strong>El Pais semanal</strong> li ha dedicat un article recentment (<a href="http://www.elpais.com/psp/index.php?module=elp_pdapsp&#38;page=elp_pda_noticia&#38;idNoticia=20071111elpepspag_13.Tes&#38;seccion=cul"><strong><font color="#3c659e">11 novembre de 2007</font></strong></a>). També de molt interès és l&#8217;assaig de Justin Taylor <em><strong>&#8220;The Codex seraphinianus: how mysterious is a mysterious text if the author is still alive (and emailing)?&#8221;</strong></em> (<a href="http://www.believermag.com/issues/200705/?read=article_taylor"><font color="#3c659e"><strong>The Believer</strong></font></a>, maig 2007).</p>
<p>Si cerqueu <strong><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#38;q=%E2%80%9Ccodex+seraphinianus%E2%80%9D"><font color="#3c659e">“codex seraphinianus” a google</font></a></strong>, a la <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus"><strong><font color="#3c659e">wikipedia</font></strong></a> o a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=codex+seraphinianus"><strong><font color="#3c659e">Flickr</font></strong></a> trobareu moltíssims comentaris i gran quantitat d’imatges, però si el voleu admirar de més a prop, es troba <strong>actualment exposat a les vitrines de la Biblioteca</strong>.</p>
<p>L&#8217;exemplar exposat es pot consultar a la <a href="http://eclipsi.bib.ub.es/cgi-bin/vtls.web.gateway.20?authority=2109-60380&#38;conf=080000++++++++++++++"><font color="#3c659e"><strong>Secció de Reserva</strong></font></a> i a la <a href="http://eclipsi.bib.ub.es/cgi-bin/vtls.web.gateway.20?authority=0703-83880&#38;conf=080000++++++++++++++" title="enllaç al catàleg"><font color="#3c659e"><strong>Biblioteca de Geografia, Filosofia i Història</strong></font></a>.</p>
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