“El idioma analítico de John Wilkins”, en Otras Inquisiciones, Buenos Aires, Emecé, 1996.įrom giving us several typographic, stylistic, historic, and cultural references.Ĭlassification systems based on historic criteria are useful to analyze typography designed up to the mid-20th century. In its remote pages it is written that the animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies.». «Those ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies remind us of those Dr Fanz Kuhn attributes to a certain Chinese encyclopedia called Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge´s Taxonomy. Artículo en proceso de traducción Typographic classification
