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latterday book work
If reconstruction of the sequence of fabrication of a medieval binding is challenging, imagine surmise of the rebindings from the middle 20th c.
Ekthesis
a mouse for paper
ExBiblio, the blog, has an informative lecture on the analog/digital bridge and the promise of paper 2.0.
pamplona symposium
With wonderful intonations, Roger Chartier described the arrival of Don Quixote in a town where he notices a print shop. He and Sancho enter to find two books being printed. One is a book of piety, but the other is “The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha, Part Two”. Don Quixote takes offense at this prescription of the future and decides not to fulfill the adventures described in Part Two. Specifically he will not win the tournament at Saragossa or be shut up in a mad house at Toledo.
opened ocean
Each book is imprinted, exactly, aesthetically and taxonomically, with the time and circumstance of its production. Each book is an indigenous product of its parent culture. Because of this imprinting it is strange that each book quickly becomes an orphan, displaced from the time and circumstance of its production and, as it survives, it becomes an alien visitor in the future. There it doesn't have a known role to play and it may now have meanings completely different and unimagined. Readers mention their own travel in books, but books meet them on an opened ocean.
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