Once there was life without books. It’s hard to imagine what that must have been like: an age of stories and knowledge of the world which stretched no farther than a day’s walk. The introduction of the written source constituted nothing less than the creation of a time and space capsule. The story, the idea, insight, knowledge were suddenly free of their messenger and were all able to bridge distances, able to surface, vanish and reappear.
Just as there was a time before the book, there will also be a time after it. In this issue ‘The Last Book’ project is taken up, but as to the consequences of publishing exclusively online – the loss of filters such as the publisher, editor and publication costs – we can only guess. Yet it is clear that our centuries old house of knowledge is undergoing a fundamental renovation, beginning with the solid base of the library.
Search and Access: Google Books, interview with Dan Clancy
Oosterman, Arjen
37
Interview with Gill Cousins
Cousins, Gill Cousins
38
The Virtual Graveyard
AESD
42
Future Typologies for Banned Books
Garcia, Charles
46
Readers
Nouwens, Monica
48
Architectures of Global Knowledge: The Mundaneum and the World Wide Web
Heuvel, Charles van den
54
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
60
Beyond the Virtual Body, interview with Toyo Ito
Daniell, Thomas
66
smt 2.0. Upgrading the Sendai Mediatheque to Produce an Archive for the Folksonomy Era
Suzuki, Akira
70
A Library Like a City Square, interview with Jo Coenen
Oosterman, Arjen
76
The Persistance of Papier
Burry, Mark
82
Room for Reading
Burry, Charles
90
Local Libraries
Young, Amanda
92
Mobile Library
96
The Hospitable Archivist
Harris, Verne
102
Museo Obrist or the Library of the Future, interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Ernsten, Chris
107
A Protest Against Forgetting: The Making of the Tschlin Library
Miessen, Markus
112
After Blank_: Composing a Postcolonial Canon?
Murray, Noeleen with commentary by Hilton Judin
117
Secure City, Public City
138
Back to the Polis: Neurath and Participatory Knowledge Systems. A conversation with Nader Vossoughian and Arno van Roosmalen
Oosterman, Arjen and Christian Ernsten
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