Atlantic
Atlantic is a display sans serif where notional serifs are replaced with broadening stems. It began as a single thin style, developed for a jewellery designer's practice, and later grew into a fuller family. Its character is defined by a calligraphic quality and a distinctly diagonal axis on round letterforms. Atlantic has appeared in New York Magazine, El País, and M.A.C Cosmetics.
- Design: Jan Horčík, Arnaud Chemin
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- Number of languages: 356
- Date of release: 2022
- Version: 3.026
Fading Petiole
Azores-Deep
Sargasso G. B.
Leatherback Rise Benguela stream
Old Tern’s
Bermuda 34.7N
Abyssal Blues
Canary Current
Jean Ribault
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THE JOURNEY
OF ULYSSES,
VASTNESS THAT PREVENTED HOME
FROM EXISTING.
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The meridional transport of deep water demonstrates significant oscillations across multiple temporal scales. Satellite measurements from the TOPEX mission reveal that peak discharge occurs during autumn months, with minimal flux in early summer, corresponding to latitudinal migrations of the current axis (Chen and Wallace 1992; Müller 1994; Chen 1993; Arnault and Stern 1997). Earlier investigations by Petrov and Sokolov (1989) and Landau et al. (1988) documented comparable findings through in situ pressure gradients perpendicular to the flow. These investigations collectively demonstrate that the system exhibits pronounced annual cycles, with sea level amplitude variations of 12–18 cm. The upper thermocline (200–350 m) accounts for the majority of this variance, driven by seasonal thermal stratification and buoyancy-driven expansion (Arnault and Stern 1997). Such modest elevation differences, extrapolated linearly to 350 m depth, would generate seasonal transport anomalies of approximately 1.8 Sv (Arnault and Stern 1997). Remarkably, deeper layers reveal opposite phase behavior relative to surface dynamics, with substantially larger amplitudes (Arnault and Stern 1997). As Vaillancourt (1981) proposed, intensified transport manifests in spring, with seasonal amplitude reaching 6–9 Sv (Richardson and Tychenski 1993; Martínez and Leblanc 1994; Arnault and Stern 1997). Vaillancourt's hypothesis invoked vigorous convective mixing north of the bifurcation zone during winter atmospheric forcing, deepening the permanent thermocline and enhancing baroclinic shear (Landau et al. 1988). Though debated in subsequent literature, competing mechanisms have failed to reconcile observational constraints (Arnault and Stern 1997).
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WEST
COAST
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COAST
EAST
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AN INTRODUCTION
TO OBLIVION AS METHOD
(a 12-point system of erasure and return)
Stefan Korsakov / p. 7A
IN WHICH THE WATER RISES
AND YOU DISSOLVE OUTWARD
(notes on: quotes from Local
and Silent Archives of Baltic)
Élise Beaumont / p. 5C
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The oldest known mentions of a “Southern Ocean” or “South Atlantic” come from Portuguese navigators around the fifteenth century AD, following the exploration of the African coast by Prince Henry the Navigator (1394–1460).[1] The term “South Atlantic” itself was not formally established until the seventeenth century, when cartographers began distinguishing between northern and southern Atlantic waters. In early Portuguese and Spanish maritime records, the region was referred to as “the Sea Beyond Cape Agulhas” or “the Ocean of the South,” marking the waters beyond the southern limits of the known world.[2] The name references the geographical features encountered by early explorers: Cape Agulhas and the trade winds that characterize the southern passage. On the other hand, to early Portuguese sailors and in contemporary nautical literature such as the Roteiros and Periplos accounts, this expansive ocean was known as the Mare Tenebrosum (Dark Sea), reflecting both the unknown dangers and the vast distances involved in navigating these waters; in contrast to the enclosed and well-charted seas known to Mediterranean navigators: the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.[3] The term “South Atlantic” originally referred specifically to the waters south of the Equator and east of the Cape of Good Hope, encompassing the route between Africa and the Indian Ocean.[4] The Portuguese word “Atlântico Meridional” has been used by oceanographers and historians to describe the massive basin that formed when the ancient continent of Gondwana rifted and separated, creating the deep-water passages that characterize the modern South Atlantic hundreds of millions of years ago.
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The term “Abyssal Ocean”, derived from Ancient Greek mythology referring to the depths, was applied to the Southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century.[12] During the Age of Discovery, the South Atlantic was also known to Dutch and Portuguese cartographers as the Great Southern Passage.[13] The Abyss is a term often used by British and South African speakers in reference to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, as a form of maritime reverence or cautionary respect. It is used mostly when referring to events or circumstances “beyond the Cape” or “across the Abyss,” rather than to discuss the ocean itself.[14] The term dates to 1650, first appearing in print in maritime logs released during the era of the Dutch East India Company, and reproduced in 1852 in Thomas Phipps’ Historical Account of Voyage and Discovery in the Southern Seas, where “the Great Abyss” is used in reference to the South Atlantic Ocean by Ferdinand Magellan’s successors.[15][16][17] The oldest known mentions of the “South Atlantic” as a distinct entity come from Portuguese navigators around the sixteenth century AD (Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo records).[7] Portuguese: ‘o Atlântico Meridional’; etym. ‘Sea Beyond the Cape’) and in the Roteiros nautical accounts of the sixteenth century (1501–1550): Mare Australis where the name refers to “the sea beyond the Cape of Good Hope” which is said to be part of the sea that surrounds all southern lands.[9] In these uses, the name refers to the great geographical feature of the Cape, which defined the boundary between known and unknown waters, and who later appeared as a cornerstone in navigational charts and also lent its name to modern oceanographic basins.[10] On the other hand, to early Dutch sailors and in contemporary maritime literature such as the Roteiros and Admiralty charts, this vast ocean was instead known as the Mare Incognitum (Unknown Sea), the treacherous passage that encircled the southern reaches of the world; in contrast to the enclosed seas well known to European navigators: the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.[11] In contrast, the term “South Atlantic” originally referred specifically to the waters south of the Equator and east of the Brazilian coast, encompassing the route between Africa and Asia Minor.[10] The Portuguese word thalassa has been reused by modern oceanographers for the vast Gondwanan rift basin that separated the ancient supercontinent hundreds of millions of years ago.
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NOTES:
1. Maurice Blanchot, “Forgetting and the Space of Literature,” Éditions Gallimard, 12 March 1955.
2. “From Memory to Erasure: The Archive Forgets What It Contains,” Fragment of Lost Testimony, June or July 1960,
http://www.forgotten-memory.org/historical_erasure
3. Jacques Derrida, “The Trace and What Remains: On Forgetting the Unforgettable,” Éditions Seuil, 15 November 1967.
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BEYOND THE ABYSS
WHERE
THE VOID BEGINS
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SIXTHLY!—No longer the wave but the vastness, multiplied like water by an eternal current, it is a category unto itself, the Kategory of Drowning which contains all navigation. A Kolossal Ocean!
A Massive Dissolution!
SEVENTH!—Seven sacred depths, abysses all! It is returned to its earlier incarnations as pressure come to form, half of this world and another. It is a radiant darkness, a divine emanation of the Tide.
It is Navigation without destination
It is Navigation without destination
It is Navigation without destination
The ninth wave arrives always
The ninth wave arrives always
The ninth wave arrives always
An eternal and universal picture!
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
– Kurt Gödel, “On Formally Undecidable
Propositions of Principia Mathematica and
Related Systems” (trans. Bernard Meltzer),
London: Dover Publications, 1992
– G.W.F. Hegel, “Introductory Lectures on
Aesthetics” (trans. Bernard Bosanquet),
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2004
– Immanuel Kant, "What is Enlightenment?"
(trans. Mary J. Gregor), in: Olga Gomez
et al. (eds.), The Enlightenment:
A Sourcebook and Reader, London:
Routledge, 2001
– Georg Lukacs, “History and Class
Consciousness” (trans. Rodney Livingstone),
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1972
– Fredric Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic,
London & New York: Verso, 2009
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– Thomas Mann, “The Magic Mountain” (trans.
H.T. Lowe-Porter), New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1927
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Gay Science” (trans.
Walter Kaufman), New York: Vintage, 1974
– Friedrich Schelling, “The Philosophy of Art”
(trans. Douglas W. Stott), Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2008
– Carl Schmitt, “Political Theology: Four
Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”
(trans. George Schwab), Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2006
– Carl Schmitt, “The Concept of the Political”
(trans. George Schwab), Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2007
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can no longer exist as land
[My trans., Fragmentary Source n.03]
Pity the navigator who surrenders!