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“You deciphered me and now I am plain to read”: How the body Is a book

Henningsen, Kadin

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Title
“You deciphered me and now I am plain to read”: How the body Is a book
Author(s)
Henningsen, Kadin
Issue Date
2016
Keyword(s)
  • Subjectivity
  • Book production
Abstract
Is the body a book? Drawing on both bibliographic studies and theories of subjectivity, this paper argues that the body is a book by considering three technologies of book production: writing, reading, and circulation. I argue that the body is written through a reiterative process of reading and circulation, and that all three technologies are mutually constitutive. The body thus becomes a new mode of knowledge production that information science must consider.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/94937
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2016.0018
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Copyright 2016 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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