WOID. A journal of visual language has been online since 1998. Like its publisher it was first focused on letterforms and visual language, but its (my) interests have broadened considerably since then, without fundamentally changing. In rough order, they are:

Lettering; Art-Thinking and Art-Making; Critical Theory; Marxism and Politics; and the culture of “Red Vienna,” 1919-1934.

Now about me:

My name is Paul Werner. I’m an artist and a cultural critic. Even my paintings have footnotes. I hold a PhD in Art History (Thesis: Jacques Louis David and the French Revolution). I’ve published and lectured widely on Medieval techniques; on museums, on Art History; and on Socialism, specifically the Socialism of “Red” Vienna. My best-known work, Museum, Inc., was a runner-up for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. It’s been published in the US, in France, in Italy and in Iran. You can find more about me here:

https://independent.academia.edu/PaulWerner3/CurriculumVitae

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! סאָלידאַרישקייַט / انسجام / Solidarity / Freundschaft / Solidarité / Solidarietà /Solidariedade!

Paul Werner, PhD, DSFS [Danger to the Security of the French State], formerly CGT [Confédération Générale du Travail], formerly UAW [Local 7902].