This inscribed selection from a  list of a thousand words (reminiscent of Bhishma’s death-bed incantation of the thousand names of Vishnu) may be thought of as a ‘dying declaration’, or as a eulogy chanted by a dying man to the power that felled him. The inscription, by inviting us to read this word-list,  involves us all as witnesses to this terminal state.

Upright board with an inscribed ‘Infra-Vocabulary’ of a selection from Raqs Media Collective’s synonyms for capital, taken from their work – ‘A Dying Man Sings of That which Felled Him’ (installation with video and inscriptions, 2006) which was subsequently published in their book, ‘Seepage’ (Sternberg Press, 2009) 

The Concise Lexicon of the Digital Commons is an A-Z of the relationship between social, digital and material space written as a hyper-textual instrument. 

The Embroidered Digital Commons (the physical network of embroidered texts that has ground around the Concise Lexicon as a ‘Recension’), which is part ‘b’ of this entry, says that – “…the lexicon weaves together an evolving metaphorical language of common ownership, common use and access in physical space and across digital platforms.”