Week 2 – February 4

What are the stakes?

Readings

  • Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Planned Obsolescence. 15-120 [Library Access]
  • Nell Irvin Painter. “Truth in Print” Keynote from Women in the Book Arts, a Symposium at The Grolier Club: https://youtu.be/r9j7HEo6Ddc?t=1448 <Start at 24:00 and end at 1:07:00>
  • Barthes, Roland. “From Work to Text” [Commons]
  • Cummings, Brian. “The Book as Symbol” from The Book: A Global History. Eds. Michael F. Suarez, S.J. & H.R. Woudhuysen. Oxford UP: Oxford, 2013 93-96. [Commons]

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