Writing in Movement, Writing and Movement. Reflections on Paul Valéry
Karin Krauthausen Gives Guest Lecture in Graz
On Wednesday, January 18th, MoA member Karin Krauthausen holds a guest lecture at the University of Graz. Karin Krauthausen researches one of the most famous French writers and writing theorists around 1900: Paul Valéry and his handwritten writing practice initiated in the »Cahiers«. These practical and theoretical engagements with a ›writing in motion‹ shape all of Valéry's subsequent printed publications as well as his understanding of authorship. In her lecture, Karin Krauthausen will talk about the role of the ›hand in motion‹ that oscillates between writing, drawing and scribbling. The hand movement on the paper and the body movement in space trigger the French writer to numerous reflections of a ›thinking in motion‹ and the relationship between thinking and line on the sheet of paper, which Ms Krauthausen will discuss with the help of examples and in doing so also pursue the question of the technical printing preparation of the notes.
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