curiouser
I cannot understand why screen based reading advocates consistently want to "eclipse" a format that is irrelevant to their visualizations. By imagining a print supercede scenario they choose a frame of most constraint for the promise of e-literature. There is no necessary connection between mutual re-definitions of two modes and their presumptive completion.
drucker share
"Many aspects of traditional codex books are relevant to the conception and design of virtual books. These depend on the idea of the book as a
performative space for the production of reading. This virtual space, like the e-space, or electronic space of my title, is created through the dynamic relations that arise from the activity that formal structures make possible. I suggest that the traditional book produces this virtual e-space, but this fact tends to be obscured by attention to its iconic and formal properties." Johanna Drucker
The convergence of this essay with the
performances of Susan Share begins to map the dimension of the book. Now if only, the laundry list of the constraints of print would be realized as the exclusive affordances of print that set the stage for the reader and for the playwright.
And here is another
performance of the physical book. (from Kilgarlin
Denizens)
keokuk
We will offer a
talk "Bookmaking in the Era of young Sam Clemens" at the public library in Keokuk, Iowa which is just up river from Hannibal and just across the Iowa line. These were the boyhood haunts of young Sam Clemens. He soon grew up and left, but ever there after used his elaborate memory of that time and its characters as the pivot of his writing and his humor.
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