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Fantasies of the library / edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin.

Fantasies of the library / edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin.
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06779146 General Borrowing   . On Loan . 4 Apr 2024
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ISBN 9780262536172
Title Fantasies of the library / edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin.
Edition Revised second edition.
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
©2016.
Description vii, 147 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm.
Notes "This book is a revised, second edition of Intercalculations. 1, Fantasies of the library ... (Berlin : Haus der Kulturen der Welt and K. Verlag, 2015)"--Colophon.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Melancholies of the paginated mind : the library as curatorial space / Anna-Sophie Springer -- The library as map / Megan Shaw Prelinger & Rick Prelinger in conversation with Erin Kissane -- Andrew Norman Wilson : ScanOps -- Intensive geographies of the archive / Hammad Nasar in conversation with Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin -- Reading rooms reading machines / curated by Anna-Sophie Springer -- Letter to the Superior Court of Quebec regarding Arg.org / Charles Stankievech -- The ethics of the book (beyond species nostalgia) / Joanna Zylinska in conversation with Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin.
Summary A book that acts both as library and exhibition space, selecting, arranging, and housing texts and images, aligning itself with printed matter in the process. Fantasies of the Library lets readers experience the library anew. The book imagines, and enacts, the library as both keeper of books and curator of ideas - as a platform of the future. One essay occupies the right-hand page of a two-page spread while interviews scrolls independently on the left. Bibliophilic artworks intersect both throughout the book-as-exhibition. A photo essay, "Reading Rooms Reading Machines" further interrupts the book in order to display images of libraries (old and new, real and imagined), and readers (human and machine) and features work by artists including Kader Atta, Wafaa Bilal, Mark Dion, Rodney Graham, Katie Paterson, Veronika Spierenburg, and others.
Donated by Romany Manuell ;
Subjects Libraries -- Philosophy
Libraries in art
Added Names Springer, Anna-Sophie editor.
Turpin, Etienne, 1980- editor.
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