'A Philosophy of Punctuation' (Book Work), 2016.

The full significance of punctuation marks is almost universally overlooked and under-examined in any discussions of written language, especially within philosophy.“Elements for a philosophy of punctuation are, with the exception of the brief indications in Adorno’s essay, almost entirely lacking” (Agamben, 1999: 222).

A ‘Philosophy of Punctuation’ attempts a mini-history of those individual philosophers who have paid attention to punctuation, and who have contemplated its significance for the act of thinking itself.

The work consists of a series of experimental letterpress-printed punctuation-based typographic prints, which come together in an artist’s book/folio edition, complementing these philosophical remarks.

A series of sound works, interpreted from the prints by Bert Van Beek, accompany the series.