03.页面空间／THE SPACE OF THE PAGE

［03］页面空间／THE SPACE OF THE PAGE

由于印刷机的出现，写作被投射在方方面面，甚至达到了侵占甚至隐藏景观的程度。广告牌、交通标志、路标、火车站的时刻表、台上记分牌、歌剧院的翻译、犹太教堂的先知卷轴、教堂的福音书、课堂的黑板、演讲厅的PPT、杂志和报纸……页面支配并主导着我们，屏幕可以再现页面。 Because of the printing press, writing is now projected everywhere in space, to the point where it has invaded and even hidden the landscape. Advertising billboards, traffic signs, street signs, schedules at train stations, scoreboards in stadiums, translations at the Opera, scrolls of the prophets in synagogues, the Gospels in churches, blackboards in classrooms, PowerPoint in lecture halls, magazines and newspapers...Thepagedominates us and guides us. And the screen reproduces the page.

城市地图、农村土地登记册、建筑师的蓝图、建筑工程计划、公共场所和私人卧室的设计……都以编码的美妙格子模仿着我们祖先规划的区田(Pagus)：种植着苜蓿的土地，或是农民在硬土上留下痕迹的小块耕地。一条沟正是在这个划定空间内写下的一笔文字。这就是知觉、行为、思想和意图的空间化统一。这是一种持续了千年的格局，对人类来说，（至少对西方人来说）如六边形蜂室对蜜蜂一样重要。 Consider maps of cities, rural land registries, architect’s blueprints, plans for construction projects, or designs for public halls and private bedrooms. Each of these mimic, in their soft and paginated grid-patterns, thepagusof our ancestors: square parcels of earth planted with alfalfa, or plots of furrowed land, on whose hardness the peasant left the trace of his plow. A furrow is already a line being written within this demarcated space. Such is the spatial unity of perception, action, thought, and intentionality. This is a format that has persisted for millennia, almost as important to humans, or at least to Westerners, as the hexagon is to bees.

姜卓含：这部分主要是论述了软性符号的重要性，我作为一个文科生看到这些是很开心的！写作、印刷、页面这些软工具在大学教育里被远远低估了，相比之下，土木工程、建筑等学科更受重视与推崇。作者能在城市的图景，甚至土地里看到页面的影子，这个说法十分妙！思想、写作渗透在我们生活的每一个角落，我强烈建议当代人重拾阅读与写作的习惯！