Texx is how we carry on. It is embodied cognitions engaged in the reproduction of one's own data. It is text, textile, technology, and architecture all woven together.
¿Por qué las dos equis?
One semester my friend Nicole (whom I started the hypertexxt webring with) and I were registered to take a class called 'Texxture' from Sunny Xiang.
The class was canceled, but just syllabus forever changed something in my psyche... Here's a quote:
The term texxture was first used by queer studies scholars to describe a density of tactile information about an object’s provenance, composition, circulation, and use. This brilliant coinage offers an immanent theorization of texture as something like an x-factor — an excess and an essence, something magical yet practical, a strange intensity and the thing itself.
The scholars in question are Eve Sedgwick and her student Remu Bora, who used the term in the chapter "Outing Texture" in Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction.
As I became more and more invested in studying and creating textiles and hypertexts, I found the word 'texxture' and its double 'xx' incredibly endearing and efficient at evoking the existence of extra dimensions.
The cross crossed. A stitch stitched. An x xed. Twine twined. I call 'xx' a dichiasmus (χχ), and it has become a personal symbol as I navigate the texx complexx.
The first 'x' is initiation, interaction, interlacement, engagement, relation.
The second 'x' is iteration, repetition, reflection, reference, recursion.
After all, learning, weaving, and meaning making are all iteration of imbrication relations, and 'xx' seems the simplest morphemetical unit of that premise.
Oh yes, and the "red xs" of my hometown Missoula, MT! These are located downtown at the north end of Higgins St. in a roundabout by the railroad.
Diatribe
Texx begins with an 'x'. A single cross, connection, intersection, relationship. It may be one thread passing over the
Texx is a complexx that stretches into our psyche, material reality, biology, mathematics, and nearly every aspect of our culture.
It is embodied cognition