Umberto Eco's Anti-Library (2015)
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Umberto Eco's Anti-Library (2015)
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#2This is an article discussing one of the first chapters of The Black Swan by Nassim Nicolas Taleb. I thought it was a great part of a great book that really changed how I think about the world.
If you'd prefer to just read the actual chapters, it starts on page 33:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.695...
For those interested in expanding their (anti-)library:
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Frag...
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#3Finally, a good erudite excuse for all the fascinating(-looking) books that keep accumulating, faster than I can read them.
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#4This featured an illustration from Eco's "The Three Astronauts", a children's book in which an American, a Russian, and a Chinese walk into a semiotic space rocket...
Turns out they're making it into a 21st century opera... http://www.thethreeastronauts.com/
Enjoy the illustrations: https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/03/15/the-three-astronaut...
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#5"How to talk about books you haven't read" by Pierre Bayard is another interesting book on this subject.
I presume Derrida is not much liked around here but this excerpt is pure gold from the Derrida documentary https://youtu.be/tdumO88JMxw:
(Derrida shows his library to the interviewer)
"I haven't read all the books that are here"
"But you've read most of them?
"No, no ... three of four... but I've read those four really, really well."
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#6Finally, a good erudite excuse for all the fascinating(-looking) books that keep accumulating, faster than I can read them.
If you call your collection of unread books your "anti-library", what do you call your collection of books still enclosed within postal delivery boxes that you haven't even opened yet?
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#7Finally, a good erudite excuse for all the fascinating(-looking) books that keep accumulating, faster than I can read them.
If you call your collection of unread books your "anti-library", what do you call your collection of books still enclosed within postal delivery boxes that you haven't even opened yet?
Schrodinger's library
Re: Umberto Eco's Anti-Library (2015)
#8Finally, a good erudite excuse for all the fascinating(-looking) books that keep accumulating, faster than I can read them.
If you call your collection of unread books your "anti-library", what do you call your collection of books still enclosed within postal delivery boxes that you haven't even opened yet?
When I was a CS student we used to joke that a friend of ours organized his room in the form of a novel data structure, a bit like a heap but unstructured, called a tip[0]. It would be perfect for storing unopened mail.
[0]https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rubbish...
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#9I buy books faster than I can read them, so I get it.
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#10A small video of Eco walking through his house library, discussed in the article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoEuvgT1wBs
EDIT:
this is actually an extract from a small 3 part documentary that should be visible here http://www.artribune.com/television/2016/02/video-umberto-ec...