Definition of "graphism"

The complex but fundamental relationship between language and graphism is one of the more provocative recognitions of Gesture and Speech.

1993, Randall White, Gesture and Speech, Introduction, page xix

In effect, the analogy of writing that lies at the core of graphism has subtly colonized the conversation.

2014, Colonial Mediascapes, page 297

Visceral and biomorphic graphism resists dominant ideologies by maintaining independence from voice, but unlike other forms of disconnected graphism, visceral graphism does not engage in a degenerative turn; it inherently generates new meaning.

2014, Rebecca Mark, Ersatz America‎