Turning Signs

by Gary Fuhrman

Turning Signs is a hypertext netbook about the process of meaning. It can be read in many ways, online or off. My advice is to start at the beginning, or even the preverse, a kind of guided meditation that comes before the beginning. But no matter where you start, you will need to read each part of it with close attention and open intention.

To read it offline,

1. use the link at the end of this paragraph to download the whole book as a Zip file (about 3 MB).
2. Extract the contents from the Zip file to the location of your choice.
3. open the TS folder,
4. then select and open index.html.

• I recommend reading the obverse side (Chapters 1 to 19, the left-hand side of the Contents list below) in order, one section at a time. (The rest can be read one point at a time in any order.) With your browser, you can bookmark chapters, subsections or points. You can also (optionally) follow links to other points in the text or on the Web. Some of these serve as a glossary or reminder of previous chapters; others serve in place of footnotes or endnotes.
• The reverse side (rePatches ·19 to ·1, the right-hand side of the Contents list below) and The Point (between the two sides) can be read from time to time, using bookmarks to keep track of where you left off.
• The Turning Signs blog is an ongoing supplement which applies the basic ideas of the main texts to current circumstances and invites conversation on them. You can select a category on the blog menu (left side), or a tag, and read only the posts on that topic.
• Tip: You can search the whole book online by entering or pasting “site:gnusystems.ca/TS” before the search string in the search engine of your choice (Google, Bing or whatever).
• You can also subscribe to the blog, so that you are notified whenever there's a new post that day, or when next study circle will convene (via Zoom) to converse about a section of Turning Signs.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

If you really hate reading from a screen, you can email me to order a paperback copy of the first edition (2015) of the Obverse side ($25 +shipping). There are as yet no plans for a print edition of Turning Signs 2.2, but you can read it all here for free.

Contents

preverse ·0· Phenoscopy

This book is dedicated to my best friend, beloved wife and gnusystems partner Pam Jackson.

Among the sources who do not appear in my SourceNet or reference list, i owe special thanks to Gary Richmond, Jon Alan Schmidt, Jim Hart, and many denizens of Manitoulin Island, human and otherwise.