[1] Hypergraphy abandons the phonetic values communicated by most conventional written languages in favor of an aesthetically broadened form.
Hypergraphy is rooted in the core Lettrist concept that every major arena of human interaction, whether it be literary or economic, follows the same basic pattern.
According to Lettrist painter Maurice Lemaître, James Joyce's Ulysses marks the apex of the novel and thus the completion of its amplic phase.
[2] Alongside Lettrist founder Isidore Isou, Lemaître set to work on creating hypergraphic novels to begin the process of deconstruction.
Traditional syntax is replaced by a two-dimensional plane in which select three-dimensional properties not possible with conventional orthography can be utilized (for instance, overlapping elements or perspective lines to indicate depth).