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Thursday March 06, 2025 |
'We should move from corporate interest to authorship development' (Edmundo Benaján, 1972).
The notion of research has changed over the years within the academic environment. The intersection between technological and scientific comercial development renders Photo: Main street entrance to the Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1992. |
Terminus ad quemTechnology and ResearchThere is no doubt that technological apparatus and developments from computers to databases are useful tools for the academic researcher. However the task of the researcher has not changed much in intellectual terms over the Photo: Aula Magna, Biblioteca della Università di Bologna, 1992.
Rara avisThe bookish spaceThe book's production responds mainly to corporate interest or to marketing and financial considerations. The book as vehicle of language and/or as artistic object concerns only a minority of people. Paradoxically, the greater the number of books produced and sold, the greater the concept and value of book is diffused, the lesser is the attention paid to the relation between thinking and producing physical books.
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