ABSTRACT
Great mutations are linked, not to solemn historical events, but to what we could call discursive ruptures, that is, what are commonly known as Renaissances: there is a general mutation in the system of values, and writing is captured in this conversion because these new values require a new regime of production and diffusion. The refinement of ‘Gothic’ writing and its generalization across Europe correspond to the Renaissance of the 12th century; the passage from the manuscript to the book corresponds to the great Renaissance (of the 15th century); meanwhile, today, at a time of undisputed crisis in humanist values, a new writing is being sought and worked on: a writing of images and sounds.
