{"id":9323,"date":"2012-03-01T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/john-furnival-the-fall-of-the-tower-of-babel\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T16:49:12","slug":"john-furnival-the-fall-of-the-tower-of-babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=9323","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/john-furnival-the-fall-of-the-tower-babel-1964.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"1468\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/john-furnival-the-fall-of-the-tower-babel-1964.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/john-furnival-the-fall-of-the-tower-babel-1964.jpg 648w, http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/john-furnival-the-fall-of-the-tower-babel-1964-88x200.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"531\" height=\"749\" data-id=\"9324\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tumblr_m02n93HyH91rpiyaso1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9324\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fall of the Tower of Babel by John Furnival, 1964.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>John Furnival\u2019s The Fall of the Tower of Babel is one of the early classics of concrete poetry and exists in many versions. It depicts the Biblical story of the splintering of the World\u2019s languages as a vision of nuclear apocalypse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/exhibit-media\/the-fall-of-the-tower-of-babel\/\">Timothy Shipe, Curator, International Dada Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Updated in 2024, with help from <a href=\"https:\/\/machinatorium.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/research_013_pattern.pdf\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fall of the Tower of Babel by John Furnival, 1964. John Furnival\u2019s The Fall of the Tower of Babel is one of the early classics of concrete poetry and exists in many versions. It depicts the Biblical story of the splintering of the World\u2019s languages as a vision of nuclear apocalypse. \u2013 Timothy Shipe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[1422,913,163,56,57,187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23141,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions\/23141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}