Notes for a letter, 2

the creation of texts require
a system of writing, with a defined set of signs
a material medium or base (paper, ink, disks, etc.)
a tool or implement (printing machines, pen, typewriter, keyboard, etc)

the creation of meaningful texts require, apart from the items above,
a community of readers who share, to different extents, systems of writing AND
systems of reading.

texts have different levels of elaboration:
the basic string is a simple performance, using the basic encoding procedures of the system. let's call this level I elaboration.
Level II elaboration compounds the first by hyper-coding, that is creating secondary codes that accommodate poly-semantic reading.

Level I can be described by a metalanguage, as linguistics or semiology.
Level II can be described by a metalanguage, as rhetorics or criticism or hermeneutics.
Level III arises as meta-coding, as level II elaborations read through as codes.

what do we call the elaboration of reading level I? Grammatical competence?
what do we call the elaboration of reading level II? Literacy?
what do we call the elaboration of reading level III? as Meta-literacy?
what do we call the meeting of this complex with other systems of signs? Multi-media, Poly-semiotic art, Post-literacy, Hypertext, Intermedia?
what do we call the foregrounding of these levels and the procedures that they use? SCRIPTURAL FANTASY.

several approaches can be done in relation: parodic summaries, materialist immanence, minimalist scripts, proto-lexemic bindings, paragraphic exercises, etc. it can be technical, mechanical, intuitive, complex, reductionist, calculating, simplistic, caricaturist, etc. as exercises, some may fall, some may survive.

what is in the agenda? it is difficult to be argumentative without any DECLARATIVE slipping in. the language of intents and results is difficult in theory and practice. but we can always dramatize this fantasy, with all the implied VERTIGO of the exercise in METAPHORICAL ASSERTIONS (in various ways).

briefly: SUMMARY of scriptural fantasies or logics; REDUCTION to an immanent material & "literal" base; DISRUPTION of allegoric energies; and, REPETITION as core dynamic. plus, a little humor isn't so bad.