Cosmograms

by Jean-Christophe Royoux

"Often in a cosmogram there's an aim that goes beyond mere description or depiction: it's often a redescription, in the conditional or future tense: not the world as it is but the world as it could be. There can be a utopian intention, the goal of projecting new possibilities into a world which seemed fixed. Or to use a recent example, Philip K. Dick's novels map points where the standard ontology slips, where there are cracks in reality, out of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974568864
• ISBN13: 9780974568867
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 255 Pages