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This book tells the tale of the prolific Italian architect,
inventor, farmer, writer, and engineer Gaetano Ciocca, whose career
took him from the battlefronts of World War I to Stalin's Russia,
Mussolini's Italy, FDR's America, and finally to postwar
liberal-democratic Italy. Like celebrated counterparts such as
Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Ciocca was a visionary so
confident in his vision of a future in which all aspects of life
would be rationalized and modernized that no set of practical or
political obstacles could ever stand in his way. Ciocca's endeavors
included the development of "fast houses," a "theater for 20,000
spectators," the "guided roadway," and the rationalist pig farms
referred to by Carlo Belli as "Ciocca's Grand Hotel for Pigs."
With textbook readers and digital downloads proliferating, it is
easy to imagine a time when printed books will vanish. Such
forecasts miss the mark, argue Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles.
Future bookshelves will not be wholly virtual, and libraries will
thrive although in a variety of new social, cultural, and
architectural forms. Schnapp and Battles combine deep study of the
library s history with a record of institutional and technical
innovation at metaLAB, a research group at the forefront of the
digital humanities. They gather these currents in The Library
Beyond the Book," exploring what libraries have been in the past to
speculate on what they will become: hybrid places that intermingle
books and ebooks, analog and digital formats, paper and pixels.
Libraries have always been mix-and-match spaces, and remix is
their most plausible future scenario. Speculative and provocative,
The Library Beyond the Book" explains book culture for a world
where the physical and the virtual blend with ever increasing
intimacy."
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