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| Author(s): | G. Liaropoulous-Legendre |
| Publisher: | Architectural Association Publishers |
| ISBN: | 1902902327 |
| Format: | softback |
| 136pp | |
| Price: | £20.00 |
| Review Date: | 08 July 2004 |
| Review: | This experimental text approaches its subject through a joint meditation on abstraction, figuration, performance, symbology and form. In the ijp of the title, the ij are indices of a parametric equation and the p the ‘point’, showing how the conventional duality of the two domain indices has been challenged by the introduction of an equally significant third index, and by implication a symbol of independence. Several interdependent modes of writing convey a process of thought elaborated in parallel venues, including theoretical essays on the literal and metaphorical meanings of ‘superficial’, statements of computer programming syntax, recipes, printouts of data streams, indexing poetry, mathematical asides and descriptions of numerically-controlled fabrication processes – all of which offer alternative descriptions of the same thing: the surface as knowledge of the object. |