Knick Knacks

Two More Serious Ladies: Angel, part one

In agreement

Objects withdraw. While they can form relations with other objects, they can’t know each other completely. And an object’s identity is not exhausted by its relations with other objects. There is always some part of each object that remains inaccessible.

Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois. CARLI Preservation Working Group: Webliography

River Campus Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation General Collections Book Repair Manual

These are six very different cases showing how plural vision is a fundamental wealth of our cultural heritage. We would like to see it enriched by the tool that is the Internet without having to forgo the pleasure of touch and the long-term experience offered by paper magazines. Understanding how the Internet can be shaped as an infrastructure that brings visibility to these emerging archipelagos of knowledge is undoubtedly an issue that written architecture will have to ask itself in the coming years, and find effective strategies if it is to continue producing a political project as complex as that of the magazine. It may no longer have the power to change today’s world but it does provide a precise lens through which to explore it. The challenge is clear—we must not stop reading!