Shades of Cogs - an essay at a hyperessay

the kora

By happy coincidence, and despite his ambivalent relation to music, the string instrument kora resounds in Plato’s concept the chora, which he sees as a receptacle for the soul.

Shades of Cogs shows an array a mapping a new media reading of texts published in the 'old' media print. The readings speaks about the indeterminacy and ex-stasis of signs, of mappings and structural frameworks. And music.

By happy coincidence, and despite his ambivalent relation to music, the string instrument kora resounds in Plato’s concept the chora, which he sees as a receptacle for the soul.

By happy coincidence, the string instrument kora resounds in Julia Kristeva’s rereading of the chora as the semiotic chora, a receptacle for the unconscious that embodies our being in the world. And this chora, this otherness, can be heard in the rhythms of our language, in the body’s movement…, and in the compositions we create.

Shades of Cogs shows an array a mapping a new media reading of texts published in the “old” media print. The readings speaks about the indeterminacy and ex-stasis of signs, of mappings and structural frameworks. And music. It is an essay, a hyperessay, and an essay at a database-driven text. In 2008, the text underwent a complete overhaul. It was revised, cropped and cleansed. Edited, in short.

Published 2003.
URN: urn:nbn:se:studiofreewheelin-2003-04