Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

and since the content of that form often is aggregates into one. big
interconnected blob or so we would like to think alltogether.
emphasizing the virtuality of the book freed from its material basis.. In
a more general interpretation the book could constitute any kind of. real
or virtual intellectual 'work' ranging from physical artwork to.
networked ideas by being its possibly unique identifier like a. signature
tag etc and thereby help and preserve different kinds of. distributed
networked arts and gain identity by analogy maybe as. work in the
cultural net dispersed or immersed into it.. begin with announcing the
publication of books accordingly. only the content of a book being the
(possible empty) set of documents. some form of content from
preliminar usage and are based on various. topics but that doesn't
change their status or limit their usage as. they are principally open
subject to writing being what is actually. written into them being
written written beings.. For practical purposes once the books attain
some sort of substance. stabilizes or in other ways attain a reportable
identity they'd be. information system.. Since the books are unbound
they won't have any interface other than. their pages' immediate
contexts so if any overall interface at all it. would have to be made
which is precisely an etymologic meaning of. 'face' (from facere to
make) so interfacing the book would in a sense. also be the making of it
(and be part of it in a selvreflexive way).. Such interfaces could be
readily made for instance using search engines. or scripts in
indexinggatheringfiltering material into different. partitions.. Additional
structuring of the books could be made using cyphers for. signing
authenticating encrypting material if they were intended for. special
authoring or ways of reading.. A closing topos restating Baudrillard in
his exposition of value. queryreplaced into this setting of book
publishing as seen apt for the. purpose. Book stages natural books
commodity books structural books. (hypertext) fractal books (viral
radiant). Fractal books prolificly. only refer to themselves radiating in
all directions publishing as. contiguity. The book no longer has any
equivalence an epidemic of book. metastasis of text haphazard
proliferation and dispersal of book. We. should no longer speak of
'book' at all for this kind of propagation or. chain reaction makes all
books impossible. Yet things continue to. function long after their idea
have disappeared and in total. indifference to their own content the
paradoxical fact is that they. function even better under these
circumstances. The book is no longer a. metaphor for logos etc or
anything at all but merely the locus of. metastasis of the machinelike
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