Mobilis in mobile: the library as a supreme monster of western imaginary | Thanasis Triaridis

11.05.2020

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How the concept of the library evolves over time as a fundamental conception of Western civilization? An examination of the concept of the library traveling in history from the antiquity to the post-classical Hellenistic times and the great Library of Alexandria, from the Christian Libraries to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from the Libraries of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Industrial World to the labyrinths of Borges and the labyrinth of the Internet. The workshop was held on 16.02.2017 at the Onassis Library.