Re: <nettime> A proposition for book publishing

[Karl-Erik Tallmo <ketallmo@nisus.se>]

noemata wrote:

>The term 'book' itself may take on some specific meanings - the basic
>notion of a written document, writing on beech, collection of sheets of
>paper or other material[3]; as cortex, etym. from 'bark', as inscriptions
>in the outer regions of a structure[4] (in fact, any inscription is
>'outer' and marginal in regard to the book as cypher), which brings the
>image of neural networks closer to the idea of the book; the verbal 'book'
>links 'booking' up to the nominal use of ISBN to define them; or as
>'making a book', bookmakers running the numbers, rackets, a possibly
>illicit, anarchic use of the international standard book number system.




http://www.nisus.se/tallmo/prose/book_instructions.html


Karl-Erik Tallmo




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