Today Google marks the 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges with this colourful sketch. The sketch alludes to his role as Director of the Argentinian National Public Library, his architectural literature, and – not least – his recurring fantasies of the all-encompassing archive, the total library: Everything would be in its blind volumes. Everything: the [...]
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On Archiving Everything: Borges, Calvino, Google
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The Magus in New York
Johann George Hamann, “the Magus of the North”, was a minor civil servant working in tax administration, a Lutheran pietist, prolific lettrist, and polyglot. He is best known for his short, rhapsodic, densely allusive and often pseudonymous dispatches – on everything from erotic love to the importance of the letter ‘h’ – and for his [...]
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Jonathan Gray 
