Samuel Beckett’s second published novel, Murphy, opens with the eponymous protagonist having tied himself naked and with seven scarves to his rocking chair, swinging back and forth in the dark of his room. With this ritual Beckett’s well read, intellectual character retreats from everyday reality, relieves his body to set his mind free: ‘for it was not until his body is appeased that he could come alive in his mind’.2... Read more

The architecture programme of the ‘library’ seems old and dated. It is related to the materiality and the culture of the book, while everyone knows that the new information supports operate electronically. Moreover these new media store and disseminate not only current information and new pictures and texts. The entire old intellectual culture can – in principle – be transferred to new media... Read more