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I confirm that the work presented here is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis.  \nDuring the period of registered study in which this thesis was prepared the author has not been registered for any other academic award or qualification.  \nThe material included in this thesis has not been submitted wholly or in part for any academic award or qualification other than that for which it is  \nnow submitted.  \n07.08.2023, Charlotte Lengersdorf  \n3  \nAbstract  \nThis practice-based PhD introduces the concept of uncausality as both method and methodology to uncover potentialities for action and thought beyond habitual patterns of causality and experience.  \nThe concept derives from an investigation of asemic writing’s paradoxical dynamic, also referred to as ‘asemic effect’.1 Asemic writing’s formal and gestural resemblance to conventional writing evokes expectations of legibility and semantic meaning. At the same time, any effort to retrieve meaning remains unsuccessful.  \nThe asemic effect is detached from its immediate context and explored to offer a dynamic that is divergent from the ‘causal pleasure’ of human-computer interaction.2 The direct and predictable causality between human action and computer reaction not only appeals to, but also consolidates the human being in their position as the all-knowing agent in the face of an increasingly complex world. This thesis critiques the emphasis on pleasure, power and control that confines human thought and action to the comfortable, protected realm of the already known, hindering any venture into the unknown.  \nThe concept of uncausality taps into the potential of an encounter with the unknown, the nonsensical and the dissonant. The contemporary condition  \n1. Peter Schwenger, Asemic: theArt of Writing (Minneapolis, MN; London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), p. 2.  \n2. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (Cambridge, MA; London: The MIT Press, 2011), p. 92.  \nAbstract 4  \nthat asks humans to revaluate their habitual ways of being underlines the urgency for such an exploration.  \nWhile this research originates from a practice of visual communication with a focus on interactive type design, it follows a transdisciplinary methodology, after Guattari, to weave a heterogeneous net of connections across disciplinesand modes of research. It draws on the philosophical explorations of Deleuze and Guattari, their own sources and thinkers who followed them.  \nThis research engages in a practice and process of programming visually abstract real-time human-computer interfaces to explore, test and expand on the concept of uncausality. The iterative nature of the process of programming becomesan entry point to create, and encounter, a continuous mutation of the relation between cause and effect, action and reaction. The practice, conscious of the symbiotic relationship between culture and technology, explores an approach to interactivity that maintains human action and thought in a state of physical and intellectual tension.  \nIntroducing the concept of uncausality, this research hopes to invigorate practices that keep the human mind elastic in a confrontation with a changing world.  \n5  \nAcknowledgements  \nI express my gratitude to The German Academic Scholarship Foundation whose funding allowed this project the time for its major detours. For this privilege I am deeply grateful.  \nI would furthermore like to thank those who have contributed greatly to making this PhD the wonderfully challenging and invigorating, and equally pleasurable and frustrating, adventure it has been for me. 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