Etiqueta: The nature of the book

  • Do you consider narrative outside History?

    The disconnected air exhibited by Eisenstein’s account is not accidental. In her work, printing itself stands outside history. The press is something «sui generis,» we are told, lying beyond the reach of conventional historical analysis. Its «culture» is correspondingly placeless and timeless. THE NATURE OF THE BOOK. Print and Knowledge in the making. ADRIAN JOHNS. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS.…

  • Is your fiction austere simplicity?

    El contenido destaca la figura de Tycho de Eisenstein y Latour como un símbolo de orden en el conocimiento, cuestionando su credibilidad. También se reflexiona sobre la naturaleza de la ficción, sugiriendo que es más sencilla que la realidad, que está plagada de contradicciones, lo que genera inseguridad en el conocimiento.

  • Authorship: not of self-election

    An author is taken to be someone acknowledged as responsible for a given printed (or sometimes written) work; that is, authorship is taken to be a matter of attribution by others, not of self-election. A writer is anyone who composes such a work. A writer therefore mayor may not attain authorship. A text is the content of any written or printed work, considered…

  • De deudas y ficción

    Inevitablemente, el escritor de cualquier libro adquiere deudas incontables, y cuando el tema es tan interdisciplinario como éste, esas deudas son en particular, sensibles. Durante la casi década que ha tomado completar este trabajo; he recibido la generosa ayuda de un amplio rango de personas. Soy consciente de lo poco adecuado que resulte cualquier reconocimiento…

  • Fiction and debt

    The writer of any book inevitably accrues debts, and when its theme is as interdisciplinary as this one those debts are particularly keenly felt. During the near-decade that it has taken to complete this work, I have received generous help from a wide range of people. I am conscious of the inadequacy of any acknowledgment…