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Yuri Gordon · “Letters of the 20th Century” · chapters on Facebook*

Chapters written on my research

Ten of the twenty-one chapters the author has published were written on my research. Each one here has a link to the original on Facebook*, the author’s words about the research, and the research itself: briefs, reports, posts (in Russian).

Chapter texts © Yuri Gordon — read them via the links to his posts. Research © Julia Reprintseva.

Flip-book “Neurocaptain”: each chapter and its research on one spread →

The flip-book was made specially for this site and exists nowhere else.

18 June 2025 · announcement on Facebook*

How it all began

The “Digital YuG” project · work on the book begins

How the book got going again

By early 2025 the book had stalled. I suggested preserving the chapters and bringing AI into the work, and on 18 June 2025 we launched the “Digital YuG” project together: I used neural networks to dig up material for the book “Letters of the 20th Century”. On launch day the author wrote:

“Today the project ‘Digital I——oG’ starts, in which the tamer of neurosaurs Julia Reprintseva will create from my thoughts and words either an assistant or even a double, who is to cope with mining material for a stubborn book.”

“Once Julia’s and my project is ready, I dream of finishing the book by New Year.”

Yuri Gordon, Facebook* post, 18 June 2025

Ten chapters

The chapter and its research

First page of the report: Thaw-era lettering

Chapter 11 · 3 April 2026

Let Go and Shrivelled

Soviet neo-romanticism in Thaw-era lettering: the sweep of a wing and the severe style of the unshaven grotesque

“What AI under the direction of Julia Reprintseva thinks about the subject — see a separate link…”

Yuri Gordon, postscript to the chapter

Contents

The whole book, by links

The introduction and all chapters in order — as links to the author’s posts (in Russian).

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