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Mapping The Cracks: Text as Object / Book as Subject

In Part One of this article I wrote about the instability of the art-object. How its meaning moves, and inevitably cracks. In this follow-up I ponder text, the book, page and computer screen. Are they as stable as they appear? And how can we set them in... ...full story at Huge Entity

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02 Nov 09		Mapping The Cracks: Text as Object / Book as Subject: In Part One of this article I wrote about the instability.. bit.ly/46pYVn » Huge Entity therourke: Mapping The Cracks: Text as Object / Book as Subject: In Part One of this article I wrote about the instability.. http://bit.ly/46pYVn
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