In the Mad Laboratory
Gill Partington: Invisible Books, 16 February 2023
Literature’s Elsewheres: The Necessity of Radical Literary Practices
by Annette Gilbert.
MIT, 419 pp., £30, April 2022,978 0 262 54341 5 Show More
by Annette Gilbert.
MIT, 419 pp., £30, April 2022,
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origin of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
by Johanna Drucker.
Chicago, 380 pp., £32, July 2022,978 0 226 81581 7 Show More
by Johanna Drucker.
Chicago, 380 pp., £32, July 2022,
“... in the industrial era, who tends to read past any strangenesses unless jolted out of the habit.Johanna Drucker
’s Inventing the Alphabet is all about writing’s material histories. It doesn’t get more material than the story of Yaqoub Caravacca, a Jordanian boy who in 1868 was hired to make a papier-mâché impression of a stone ... ”
