Book Borsuk Amaranth Assistant Professor University of Washington-BothellPaperback
Book Borsuk Amaranth Assistant Professor University of Washington-BothellPaperback The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.What is the book in a digital age? Is it a portable device…
Specifikacia Book Borsuk Amaranth Assistant Professor University of Washington-BothellPaperback
Book Borsuk Amaranth Assistant Professor University of Washington-BothellPaperback
The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.What is the book in a digital age? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers?
It was preceded by clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. 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