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Around the Book - Systems and Literacy (Hardcover, New)
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Around the Book - Systems and Literacy (Hardcover, New)
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Amid radical transformation and rapid mutation in the nature,
transmission, and deployment of information and communications,
Around the Book offers a status report and theoretically nuanced
update on the traditions and medium of the book. What, it asks, are
the book's current prospects? The study highlights the most radical
experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author
terms the "Prevailing Operating System" at play within the fields
of knowledge, art, critique, and science. The investigations of
modern systems theory, as exemplified by Gregory Bateson, Anthony
Wilden, and Niklas Luhmann, turn out to be inseparable from
theoretically astute inquiry into the nature of the book. Sussman's
primary examples of such radical experiments with the history of
the book are Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book (both the text and Peter
Greenaway's screen adaptation), Stephane Mallarme's "Un coup de
des," Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Jacques Derrida's Glas,
Maurice Blanchot's Death Sentence, and Franz Kafka's enduring
legacy within the world of the graphic novel. In the author's
hands, close reading of these and related works renders definitive
proof of the book's persistence and vitality. The book medium, with
its inbuilt format and program, continues, he argues, to supply the
tablet or screen for cultural notation. The perennial crisis in
which the book seems to languish is in fact an occasion for readers
to realize fully their role as textual producers, to experience the
full range of liberty in expression and articulation embedded in
the irreducibly bookish process of textual display.
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