text-mode:

By Marwa Boukarim, 2009.

This book deals with the overwhelming accumulation of correspondences in a digital age. Its goal is to make sense of my huge collection of letters, text messages, Facebook messages, emails, and chats by organizing them and finding new ways of visually representing the data at hand.

goodnumberone:

kafka by john.red on Flickr.

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toad-sweat:

I seem to remember that these were about 20p each.

a Kafka’s book cover with an illustration of De Chirico!

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who-witz:

Lebbeus Woods, Anarchitecture: Architecture is a Political Act

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Daniel Temkin, Yeep!Eep!Eep! Program / book, Commodore 64 art.
Book’s site. Project site. flickr.

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cold-unfeeling-odd:

This book will pursue me to the ends of the earth. I’ve read it in English & French, am currently studying it as part of my Reading French module and tonight my Japanese teacher tried to join in too.

Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author’s death in 1956. At first considered a secret code, the microscripts were eventually discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of a German script: a whole story could fit on the back of a business card.

Selected from the six-volume German transcriptions from the original microscripts, these 25 short pieces are gathered in this gorgeously illustrated co-publication with the Christine Burgin Gallery.  Each microscript is reproduced in full color in its original form: the detached cover of a trashy crime novel, a disappointing letter, a receipt of payment. Sometimes Walser used the pages of small tear-off calendars (but only after cutting them lengthwise and filling up each half with text). Schnapps, rotten husbands, small town life, the radio, pigs (and how none of us can deny being one), jealousy, Van Gogh and marriage proposals are some of Walser’s subjects.  These texts take strength from Walser’s motto: “To be small and to stay small.” 65 full-color illustrations

(via The Microscripts: Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky, Walter Benjamin: 9780811218801: Amazon.com: Books)

Can’t believe I’m only finding about this book now.

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papress:

Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archeology was originally published by the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1975. PAPress released the first English-langauge translation in 1994 and issued a second edition in 2009. For our first Backlist Library post, we’re sharing a few spreads and images from our second edition. After more than 35 years, Virilio’s images retain their hushed, powerful, and melancholic tone.

theparisreview:

“Wanting for some unknown reason to fill a space in his study with a selection of false books—complete with witty names he thought up himself—[Dickens] wrote to a bookbinder with a list of ‘imitation book-backs’ to be created specially for his bookshelf.” Now, the New York Public Library has re-created several of these fake books. (via Flavorpill)

Haha, I love the idea.