Rethinking ‘the book’ as a medium

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only those we’ve encountered, existed. (2018)

I thought April 2018 would be the end of the project, after the realisation of how a person could be affected by this contemporary form of ‘stories’. You kind of drifted away from it when you discover the substantial amount of unnecessary information you forced yourself to receive daily. Whats more is during the process of typographing, binding, going through the substances over and over again amplifies the emotion embedded within the lines and images. Memories repeat and repeat until you want to emancipate your mind from it – that’s what I told my audiences who visited the exhibition at RSA.

But what happened recently in the hovering city have drawn my attention, once again, back to the social media. Being absent from the crime scene doesn’t mean that you could deny a crime was committed. It is experienced by million others – and things change, so as your self-consciousness and identity, your mind forged by images and your position moved by words – all begins at the moment you choose to process an information.

People expecting a storm can’t help checking on the forecast.

 

Related: The Book of Life (website)

Recently I have come across a very interesting website. Sponsored by The School of Life,  The Book of Life discuss the function of traditional publication in modern times in their introduction:

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In the chapter CAPITALISM > GOOD CAPITALISM, one article discussed “how the modernworld makes us mentally ill“, in which the writer listed meritocracy, media and individualism as three main elements that generate “the forces of psychological distress in our world”. The analysis are, not so surprisingly, an interpretation from another angle of my in-progress project.

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