Fantasies of the Library /English

A book that serves as both a library and an exhibition space, selecting, organizing and hosting texts and images, while aligning with the printed matter. \n \nFantasies of the Library allows readers to have a new library experience. The book imagines and features the library, both guardian of books and conservator of ideas, as a platform of the future. An essay occupies the right page of a double page while interviews scroll independently on the left. Bibliophile works of art intersect throughout the book-exhibition. A photographic essay entitled "Reading Rooms Reading Machines" interrupts the book to present images of libraries (old and new, real and imaginary) and readers (human and machines). It features works by artists such as Kader Atta, Wafaa Bilal, Mark Dion, Rodney Graham, Katie Paterson, Veronika Spierenburg and others. \n \nThe book includes an essay on the principles of institutional ordering book collections, a conversation with the owners of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, reflections on the role of memory cultural and archive studies, as well as a dialogue with a theorist of new media on experiences at the intersection of curatorial practice and open source ebooks. The reader comes away from this exhibition with the conviction growing awareness that the library is not just a space for conservation but also a bibliological imagination, ripe for business exploration paginated consistently. The physicality of the book - and of this book - "resists the "digital," says co-editor Etienne Turpin, "but not in a nostalgic".