More specifically concerning: object
gauntlet
9 October 2018, around 15.14.
Risible mending. The whole question of fashion, slow or fast or pedestrian, reminds me of something Henry James puts into the mouth of Mme Merle: …you will see that every human being has his shell, and that you must take the shell into account. By the shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There […]
The Book
12 March 2021, around 7.12.
By Amaranth Borsuk, MIT Press, 2018.
Adversaria (33)
31 December 2025, around 4.09.
‘With the rise of universities and humanist inquiry into Latin and Greek literature and rhetoric, a picture of the author as an originator began to take shape. This shift, coupled with mechanization, would prove instrumental to reframing the book as content rather than object—its form a mere vessel for the information it contained’ —Amaranth Borsuk […]