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The look of an argument
– guest post by Bonnie Mak, University of Illinois Title + first pages of "How the Page Matters," design by Jimmy Luu (2011) How the Page Matters explores the different embodiments of a...
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The Tactility of Books
– guest post by Julia Panko (University of California, Santa Barbara) In the past several years, the concept of “touch” has become a strategic marketing point for digital devices, from the iPod to the...
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Non-anglophone worlds?
How about including, here, some resources based in France? For example: * Gallica : ancient texts plus some not-so, manuscripts & incunabula & printed books & other things, all...
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I’m Married to those Men Over There
Bruce Nauman, Burning Small Fires (1969) The bibliographic category referring to limited-edition, artist-conceived objects is a contentious one. In working on BOOKISH at MIT’s Rotch Library, taking a...
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From Constantinople to Silicon Valley: A Byzantine Approach to iBooks
In 1947, the art historian Kurt Weitzmann published his seminal text on Byzantine manuscript illustration entitled, Illustrations in Roll and Codex: a Study of the Origin and Method of Text...
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What unique storytelling possibilities do ebooks open?
It seems to me that the future of the book is here already — what remains is for us to figure out what to do with it. The codex, a collection of pages presented in such a way that they can be accessed...
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Today the “Unbound” symposium begins! As part of the registration process, we asked participants: “What questions do you have about the future of the book?” The responses follow ~ please add your...
View ArticleHaptics, Lovely Objects, Archives, and e-readers
On Friday during the first panel, and particularly during its Q&A, there was a great deal of concern about the loss of haptic experience when we read electronically, the ways that archival research...
View ArticleBRAVER, NEWER LITERARY WORLDS
The following video (in two parts) was part of my presentation to the Louisville Conference of Literature, February 2012. I am presenting a more extensive multimedia paper at the International Book...
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Symposium Wrap-Up
KICK-OFF READING by Christian Bök Co-Sponsored with Purple Blurb We started the event with a kick-off reading, co-sponsored with Purple Blurb, featuring experimental poet Christian Bök, who...
View ArticleVideo: “BOOKISH”
Please enjoy this curator’s introduction to “BOOKISH: Artist Books from the Collection of the Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning, 1960-present.” Executed in conjunction with “Unbound:...
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