A famous Borges story visualized, here. Click the photo for a larger version. Thanks again to Matt Frost.
Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, well, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College and the author, most recently, of Original Sin: A Cultural History. He keeps an online commonplace book here.
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