Yesterday we had test lectures by candidates for professorship at my department. One of the contenders talked about the materiality of books, how printing something has a different social impact that transmitting a story orally, or on the net. It is interesting how we went from mainly oral cultures, to print worship, and now are moving to electronic, world wide delivery of books. What is more interesting is how does this affect the phenomenon of protest against books as well as in books. When st…
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Posted on February 19, 2009 at 3:23am — 2 Comments