عنوان

Tar for Mortar :

شابک

1947447505

شابک

1947447513

شابک

9781947447509

شابک

9781947447516

عنوان اصلي

Tar for Mortar :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

"The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jonathan Basile.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

[Place of publication not identified]

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Punctum Books,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2018.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource

متن يادداشت

Title from content provider.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references.

متن يادداشت

Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story "The Library of Babel" is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges's narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator's claims of the library's universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library -- is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges's imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

01607001

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9781947447509

موضوع مستند نشده

Borges, Jorge Luis,1899-1986-- Criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Literature and the Internet.

موضوع مستند نشده

Literary studies: from c 1900 -

موضوع مستند نشده

DSBH

شماره

ويراست

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Basile, Jonathan.

تاريخ عمليات

20200823064336.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y