Published 16 December 200819 December 2008 · Main Posts typewriter art Andrew The typewriter is a mechanical tabulator, a character assasinator, a syntagmatic manipulator. It arranges textual space as a Cartesian plane, each letter occupying a unique position on the two-dimensional grid. It’s a machine for a linear, ordered world. It standardises writing, hammering out the personal flourishes and curlicues into mass-produced typeface. Rows and columns, ragged right. The typewriter belongs to the industrial age, soulmate of the sewing machine and the repeating rifle. And yet people respond to industrial artefacts in ways that could never have been imagined by the manufacturer. Typewriter art has been around as long as the typewriter itself. An optical illusion, feedback interaction between work and viewer, magical gasp of the mind as it perceives signal in the noise. Psychedelic concrete poetry, secret messages embedded in the cryptographic cascade. What comes first, the word or the image? See more typewriter art. Andrew More by Andrew › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.