R & D

Table of contents from Andrea Crestadoro’s “The Art of Making Catalogues” (1856)

“These are dual compunctions: distance ourselves from the messy bits of life on the one hand, transcend the finality of death on the other” Sven Birkerts, The Gutenburg Elegies

“We may start producing generations who know a great deal of “information” about the past but who have no purchase on pastness itself” Sven Birkerts, The Gutenburg Elegies