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Printed Book

The printed book is a remake of The Open Society, by Karl Popper though CAPTCHAS. The reason this work was chosen is that at the time of producing the photobook, it was at the core of the research being done. The Open Society was a building block in the popularization of the "open thought" movement. In it, Popper presents a defense of the open society and liberal democracy. His interpretation of Plato together with the dichotomy of open and closed systems have been widely criticized. For example, one of Popper's critics, Nathaniel Tkacz, argues that due to Popper's binary notion of openness, it inherently possesses closure.

‘Openness refers to the relative degree of freedom given to the dissemination of information or knowledge and involves assumptions concerning the nature and extent of the audience’

However, as we would soon be able to discover, the term 'open' would soon reveal itself as an empty vessel. As Hall has argued in Digitize this book!, where he gives a very detailed and comprehensive overview of the differing but often also overlapping motivations that exist concerning open access and openness, there is nothing intrinsically political or democratic about open access. A constant wide flow of information can give rise to secrecy through the difficulty of gaining visibility.

Given the possibility to do it over, I would choose a a book that has more to do with the information society than with the open society.

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Digital Book

For the digital book, I created a website that would display one CAPTCHA at a time and would allow you to move further only by passing these verification tests.