Klee Mutations: Generative Mistranslation as Pedagogical Design Strategy
- AU$25.00
- 212 pages
- 10.8 x 17.8 cm
- Softcover
- ISBN: 978-0-648-04663-9
- Design: Duncan Blachford
Tapping the subconscious: Post-digital automatism, new knowledge and the fear of a superficial history.
The present day conglomerate-arms of A.I mutate Paul Klee’s notorious Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch with a tactical wrassling of faulty OCR and problematic binary-translations; an André Masson-esque approach to post-digital bookmaking, with a performative (and post-knowledge) mapping of German economics; the birth of sociology, and the six degrees of separation within avant-garde circles of the 20th century.
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“The Search Engine becomes my mirror, albeit a transient reflection within a digital funhouse of expansive architecture.”
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“Karl Wilhelm Bücher was a German economist, one of the founders of non-market economics.”
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“[T]he working class should carry out organised revolutionary action to topple capitalism and bring about socio-economic emancipation.”
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“As it is with the tongue, it is doubly so with the glyph.”
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“Don’t shrink from chaos … take from it things that seem to represent life, and give shape to them.”
— Gunta Stölzl, diary entry from Bauhaus Weimar![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4a5615a85ddd0a808b874de5d5eda7f3a053148f17ae6161829b46c512ddfde/TH-Landscape-1200x800-KM014.jpg)
“Langen was not a typical publisher, in that he ran the company not only out of economic considerations, but also with a cultural-political mission.”
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“Despite the renown he enjoyed at the height of his career, Paul’s name has been largely absent from the standard histories of the modern movement.”
— William Owen Harrod, Bruno Paul: The Life And Work of a Pragmatic Modernist![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6607ea14969a8b32ce6ac24103c01f18da98b5b12b9f278fa21b90eb2fece730/TH-Landscape-1200x800-KM021.jpg)
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“Tschichold had converted to Modernist design principles in 1923 after visiting the first Weimar Bauhaus exhibition.”
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