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  1. New #OpenAccess paper published today! After years of working on #Skeuomorphism i finally wrote about Digital #Skeuomorphs - in this case the way that #NFTArt creates status through replication and recombination. I have some things to say about wealth, power and the politics of digital art/jpeg financial instruments...
    doi.org/10.1111/aman.13805

  2. Besides the switch in vocabularial proclivities, the voice of Campanus is denoted with a visibly smaller font size (printed books using #blackletter along with other vestiges from the hand-written era make for some incredibly labor-intensive #skeuomorphs.)

    Blackletter as a script works so beautifully with written Latin because blackletter was made for--or at the very least primarily evolved to primarily support--writing in Latin, with its emphasis on speed and its de-emphasis on difficulty.