Scope and Contents Stephen Balbach (Amazon webite): "Lanham has been a university professor for about 40-years, Yale-educated, English lit and rhetoric. He came of age pre-computer revolution, when writing meant manual type-writers and white-out and transcription. This series of connected essays are his ideas about what the digital revolution means for the future of books, universities and what he calls "the economics of attention" - how the world operates when information is plentiful and the scarce resource are "eyeballs" (attention). We are flooded with high-quality art, news, books, movies, data of every type - it is not an "information economy" because information is as plentiful as air - the scarce resource is peoples attention. In that environment, style (the wrapping paper, the ornamentation, packaging, literary style, etc..) becomes more important than substance - style is the substance (think for example all the crazy cultural things that come out of Japan - all style, no substance). He...

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Includes a section by artists who recall experiences with Duchamp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of an long essay on the history of word-image works begining with Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des..." to Concrete Poetry by A. Schug. The folding of the book is similar to Cendrars and Delauney's "Transsiberian Railway." The latter is reproduced in color as a facsimile in the same dimensions when this catalogue is fully opened. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.