Seeds: Signals, Fragments, and Structures of Silence (Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture)

Zima, Bill

ISBN 10: 9004763341 / ISBN 13: 9789004763340

Published by Brill, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seeds: Signals, Fragments, and Structures of Silence (Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004763341
• ISBN 13: 9789004763340
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Seeds asks what must already be in place for thought, perception, and relation to begin. You enter a modular and recursive text built from signals, fragments, and Morse-based structures, where rhythm and interval operate as temporal engines and silence functions as condition rather than absence. Instead of narrating experience, Seeds records executed forms―pulses, delays, repetitions―so meaning appears as a late arrival rather than a foundation. The book foregrounds emergence without origin, growth without teleology, and coherence without hierarchy, offering a media-archaeological poetics of structure that can be entered anywhere and revisited without closure.

About the Author

Bill Zima (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, 1990) is an outsider conceptual artist, theorist, and media archaeologist based in the Scottish Highlands. His work investigates silence, signal, and operative time through Morse-based structures across writing, sound, and form.