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This book claims to be one of those 'not absolutely dead things'. A talking book. | 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. | 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 === | === Design as Art - Bruno Munari === | ||
Revision as of 15:02, 21 February 2016
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
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!