Book Signing: Mestiz@, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing by Damián Baca

Saturday, November 22, 2008

2 pm

Wells Fargo Auditorium

Free Admission

Common assumptions about written communication depend upon the alphabet as a precondition for literacy.  By privileging the alphabet, pictographic and non-verbal writing systems of Mesoamerica become obscured.  Contemporary mestiz@ scripts, however, undermine alphabetic dominance and defy the territories of "writing."