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Ghost Writer - Tim Mackintosh-Smith

This book claims to be one of those 'not absolutely dead things'. A talking book. It talks in the first person, about its birth in Cairo (1204), its author (Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Ali) and its adventurous journey from Aleppo to the Bodleian library in Oxford. It is a manuscript recounting its story, talking about itself being written: 'I'm not the final copy' it mentions. So who's the ghost? the author of the manuscript? the talking book? or the author of the talking book? the book things of itself as a ghost 'we are the voices of the dead, audible and articulate. We don't expect to be listened to; but we still want to be heard.'

Just a thought - Umberto Eco died recently (19/02/16). His books echo his soul.

Design as Art - Bruno Munari

useless machines, are they really machines? and what makes them become useless? differences between the status of art

The Laws of Simplicity - John Maeda

The best Interface is no interface – Golden Krishna

Orality and Literacy - Walter J. Ong

Artificial Reality - Myron Krueger

Post Digital Publishing - Alessandro Ludovico

The medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore

Exercise de style - Raymond Queneau

http://www.arjandenooy.com/work/exercises-in-style/ This is a great example of reusing the method with photography!