Urge of the Letter

Tumbling quotes, images, and thoughts related to the making of meaningful marks for a book in progress, The Urge of the Letter: A Sentimental & Natural History of Writing, by Matthew Battles (matthew dot battles at gmail dot com).
May 25
CABINET // Deception as a Way of Knowing: A Conversation with Anthony Grafton Readers are always discovering the ways writing uses to deceive them; faith, rhetoric, philology, and Cartesian doubt have all taken turns as disease and cure. In this wide-ranging conversation in Cabinet magazine, Anthony Grafton and D. Graham Burnett tie together the worldviews of early modern Languedoc peasants and the Wachowski brothers as they explore the epistemology of deception. (The image link above shows a leaf from an occult manual—writing both recording and enacting the glamour of deceipt.) via aggregat456

CABINET // Deception as a Way of Knowing: A Conversation with Anthony Grafton

Readers are always discovering the ways writing uses to deceive them; faith, rhetoric, philology, and Cartesian doubt have all taken turns as disease and cure. In this wide-ranging conversation in Cabinet magazine, Anthony Grafton and D. Graham Burnett tie together the worldviews of early modern Languedoc peasants and the Wachowski brothers as they explore the epistemology of deception. (The image link above shows a leaf from an occult manual—writing both recording and enacting the glamour of deceipt.) via aggregat456