Andrew Sallee and Tate Shaw. Image from “Intersection + Intermedia” panel presentation on God Bless This Circuitry at The Hybrid Book conference. University of the Arts, Philadelphia. June 6, 2009.
Historically the book has served as a locus for the interaction of disparate forces. Dimensionally complex, it has been a place where material, cultural, structural, philosophical, temporal, mechanical, and aesthetic elements can encounter, react, assert, concede, proselytize, and reconcile. That the poet Charles Baudelaire can compare himself to a beggar nourishing his vermin while doing so in formal alexandrine meter, that the book can act in one moment as a container of authority and in...
