The Book, Amaranth Borsuk
The Book, Amaranth Borsuk
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The Book

Author: Amaranth Borsuk

Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/10/2018


Synopsis

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 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 book has always been the site of experimentation and play. Rather than creating a false dichotomy between print and digital media, we should appreciate their continuities.

Reviews

Goodreads review by ana

I found this book by chance the other day and thought it could be useful for my PhD research. And even though I am familiar with almost everything Borsuk says and the authors she mentions, it has to be acknowledged that it is a very insightful book about the book per se, not only as an artifact but......more

Goodreads review by Nelson

"The Book" saiu em 2018, publicado pela respeitada editora académica MIT Press, apresentando uma curta história do formato livro, da pedra aos ecrãs, por Amaranth Borsuk. Podia ser uma boa introdução à história do objeto, que é, mas acaba não passando de uma introdução descritiva, em que faltam comp......more

Goodreads review by Alya

3.5......more

Goodreads review by ØMVЯ

Inspirational details over the human history of information mediums. Wish the ancient techniques were discussed more yet still learned the word 'verbicate' - the act of marking words for effect such as capitalization. Additionally, Gutenburg evidently only invented a more efficient printing press ra......more