The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series - The Book - Amaranth Borsuk
Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Tags: Misc. Non-fiction, History
Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins Release date: 07-10-18, Publishers Summary, 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 books 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 b
