#boekvorm

I have something to tell you. I am a guidebook. But here is my dirty little secret: I am always a guidebook. No matter what the subject matter, fiction or non, images or braille, every single book is an atlas of worlds and an index of ideas to be explored.

Een document is een verzameling gegevens vastgelegd op een gegevensdrager. Dit kan zijn in schriftelijke vorm op papier of digitaal, maar ook op bijvoorbeeld een microfiche of grafzerk.

Reading and writing have always been social experiences, but when frozen into print these relations tend to be omitted. A significant book gets people talking in society, but this is not seen or incorporated in the paper-based object. What we've been working on is expanding the boundaries of the page, to consider its social aspects, which are so fundamental to it. We are re-defining content to include the conversation that it engenders.

een getekend portret

een dorpsmonografie

een geïllustreerde documentaire

een auto-etnografische studie

een volkskundig archief

een getekende verzameling

Rhizome principally constructs a model (a new map) for apprehending the constitution and reception of a book. As Deleuze writes, “the book is not an image of the world. It forms a rhizome with the world, there is an aparallel evolution of the book and the world”. In the words of the text: “A rhizome as subterranean stem is absolutely different from roots and radicles. Bulbs and tubers are rhizomes”. As is the potato, or any structure in which each point is necessarily connected to each other point, in which no location may become a beginning or an end, yet the whole is heterogeneous.

“There is no longer a tripartite division between a field of reality (the world) and a field of representation (the book) and a field of subjectivity (the author). Rather, an assemblage establishes connections between certain multiplicities drawn from each of these orders, so that a book has no sequel nor the world as its object nor one or several authors as its subject.”

Rhizome is a mapping rather than a tracing. Deleuze writes, “What distinguishes the map from the tracing is that it is entirely oriented toward an experimentation in contact with the real. The map does not reproduce an unconscious closed in upon itself; it constructs the unconscious”.