the book and the possibility of the book
Feb 7, 2021
perhaps no one since Mallarmé has helped us think about the book so much as Maurice Blanchot. in thinking the book, Blanchot has made apparent the absence of the book, of foundational texts. indeed, we might ask if the proliferation of works today is a sign of the impossibility of the book; if the texts that are everywhere available — books, websites, social media — testify to the absence of the book. would the foundational text, the presence of the book, make the rest null? are any other texts possible if the book exists?
