The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.
What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded by clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. Are those books? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately.
Contrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive. Despite nostalgic paeans to the codex and its printed pages, Borsuk reminds us, the term “book” commonly refers to both medium and content. And the medium has proved to be malleable. Rather than pinning our notion of the book to a single form, Borsuk argues, we should remember its long history of transformation. Considering the book as object, content, idea, and interface, she shows that the physical form of the book has always been the site of experimentation and play. Rather than creating a false dichotomy between print and digital media, we should appreciate their continuities.

The Book (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

Literature & Fiction

Borsuk, Amaranth

History & Criticism

The MIT Press

Poetry. HANDIWORK is in itself a work of craftsmanship, piecing together fragments while at the same time producing anew. Borsuk summons the tradition of Hebrew gematria to investigate and engage with language's slipperiness, and, as she explains, to provide "a sense of hope within constraint: the fruitful possibility of language." It also wrestles with and probes into "where family history becomes personal mythology, and where gaps open up that ask to be filled." The reader explores, in HANDIWORK, both the creative and destructive urges imminent in expression, as "what wounds is easily unwound."

Handiwork

Poetry

Slope Editions

Poetry. Art. Collaboration. An unlikely marriage of print and digital, BETWEEN PAGE AND SCREEN chronicles a love affair between two characters, P and S. The book has no words, only inscrutable black and white geometric patterns that, when coupled with a webcam, conjure the written word. Reflected on screen, the reader sees him or herself with open book in hand, language springing alive and shape- shifting with each turn of the page. The story unfolds through a playful and cryptic exchange of letters between P and S as they struggle to define their relationship. Rich with innuendo, anagrams, etymological and sonic affinities between words, BETWEEN PAGE AND SCREEN revels in language and the act of reading.

Between Page and Screen

Bouse, Brad

SpringGun Press

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "Roland Barthes introduces us to this remarkable book: a 'corrected banality.' I can imagine no better spokesperson than the one who announced the death of the author, for AS WE KNOW is truly a work of 'destroyed origin,' in which 'all identity is lost.' Borsuk takes hold of Fitch's notebooks, filled with their gorgeous banalities, and forges them into a graphic sprawl that belongs to no one of no gender. And yet, we read these confessional fragments with as much eagerness as we bring to the secrets of our best friend, or the stars, or our selves. This 'I' who speaks, who can never be known, lets language spin its own brilliant tales. 'I' or 'we' are enraptured."—Julie Carr

As We Know

Fitch, Andy

Subito Press

Attention à la marche ! Mind the Gap!: Penser la littérature électronique en culture numérique

Machado, Ana María

Rodríguez, Jessica

Sondheim, Alan

Cayley, John

Audry, Sofian

Biggs, Simon

Ensslin, Astrid

Portela, Manuel

James, Kedrick

Lefebvre, Michel

Costa, Cristiane

Barber, John F.

Rodríguez, Rolando

Henrickson, Leah

Gómez, Verónica

Marcotte, Sophie

Avnisan, Abraham

Bizzocchi, Jim

Booten, Kyle

Bouchardon, Serge

Boullay (du), Boris

Brianza, Alejandro

Catrópa, Andréa

Chambefort, Françoise

Ciston, Sarah

Collard, Christophe

Colombo Machado, Gabriella

David, Sylvain

Funkhouser, Christopher

Gervais, Bertrand

Goicoechea, María

Guilet, Anaïs

Kalinovski, Roman

Klobucar, Andrew

Magalhães, Cecília

Marquet, Vinicius

Muntean, Reese

Peña, Ernesto

Prado, Gilbertto

Quintas, Eva

Saklofske, Jon

Silva Pereira, Paulo

Takeda, Yuya

White, Melinda M.

Albuquerque e Aguilar, Ana

Atsuko Matsuda, Alice

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