other day I received the following e-mail:
Attachment
:-)
P.
This e-mail text (1) is of an almost unprecedented intensity barren. The sender is compressed in its short, so very short prose epistolary extent that the letters of the language now considered to negate the visual element of writing. The written word suffers the catharsis of image formation in the form of a cinematic Annex (here "anonymous") and exposes the materiality that too often hides behind the abstract. The lack of an address appears here with the claim to be able to refrain from an indivual person and implies instead a universal recipient stock. Here the author steps back. "P." is a kind of placeholder for an individual who is in the digital waves of the World Wide Web to its non-uniqueness become aware of this and yet with an ironic, ambivalent attachment to the text as soon facing smile commented. In short: A small, highly compressed masterpiece!
(1) The specific linguistic expressions in emails, see the discussion of theory Snow White in the chapter "The e-mail" in: The history of the letter art
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