Rafael Fajardo
RSSbecoming wave: ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually...
concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually mostly in favour of large personal book collections. I have several hundred books on my shelves and another 200-odd at my parents’ house that I could reclaim if I wanted to. the house I grew up in has a couple thousand…
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I work in my college library and am currently assigned to a project that has me working with the oldest (18th c) books...
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I think that kind of bookishness is really a white and first-world thing. Even being from a middle class family and...
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Good points all around! In particular I’d like to pick up on the point about it not necessarily being more socially...
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ay-cono said:
this might be unrelated, but i have the complete animorphs series at home and i’m looking for a loving owner for them.
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toujoursgai said:
tangible things you can touch!!1one! debate is partly to do with a feeling of distress that the corporeal respect you might get from displaying your knowledge gets wiped out. A folder of files on your ereader just doesn’t satisfy that same fetish
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plasmodiocarp said:
i hear you re: all of this. a big part of why i have so many books is that, on any given day, i can afford a couple of used books — but i will NEVER be able to pay off my astronomical library fines…
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About Rafael Fajardo
This blog contains thoughts on electronic, experimental, emerging media art & design. It will be of interest to students and professionals in digital and electronic media. It began activity 2010 03 22. It was originally created for the Intro to eMAD class at the University of Denver, and was named for that class. It was renamed on 2011 02 19.
