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I:2.  No need of numbers? This essential term, read as enclosing a contradiction, is at once the sign of art-less “calculation” and the basis of all artistic formalism. Unresolved, it becomes a necessary reminder of the romanticized dissociation of “writing” (or, more broadly, verbal creativity) from its techniques and technologies, and the elevation of the former over the latter, as if certain privileged spheres of rhetoric — literacy and its codexspace being the examples necessary here — were transparent to the content they selflessly bear, whereas other “newer” varieties are branded forever with their technological origins. [BRANDED]

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