Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Palimpsests

Although I knew the concept of old documents being scraped off to reuse the pages throughout history, I did not know these were called palimpsests.  I learned this from this great article by Tim Miller on cruciality of physical objects and our interactions with them that creates stories for us to retain and how in this digital age physicality is becoming more an more important for clouds of information is destined to ultimately parish due to non-physicality.



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