[Kopimism] Friday Filosophy - changed format. Weekly Rant.

[Andrew]

"*He who ceases from zeal for writing because of printing is no true lover
of the Scriptures." - *The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516): The Renaissance of
Monastic Humanism


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at clear.net> wrote:

> The fact that no one else came for Friday Filosophy gave me some time to
> think about the possibility of a different format for the weekly
> congregation.
>
> In addition to the time of day being problematic for a meat/(vegan)space
> gathering, it seems unnecessarily old-fashioned to confine the conversation
> to any particular bounds of time and space anyhow. So, in the Kopimist
> spirit of post-neo-luddite optimism -- I propose that Friday begin a
> virtual and asynchronous form of worship that can last for whenever you
> have the time for it before the sudo-minyan meets on Sunday.
>
> Rather than a particular form of chant, I propose the prayer take the form
> of a 'rant'. Due to the nature of this format, Ray gave a wise suggestion
> to cap it 2 pages/minutes, [as in 2 minutes of hate (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate) in Orwell's 1984.]
>
> Given this week's interest in bookmaking, I thought to start off a rant
> with a parable about the good old days when the people who made the books
> mattered.
>
> from Robert Darnton's, The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History
> of the *Encyclopédie* 1775-1800 (1979) ...
>
> pg. 230
> ...
> To see into the life behind a fingerprint in the *Encyclopédie* is to get
> some sense of how men moved through the obscure channels of working-class
> history, but Bonnemain's thumbmark also can be studied for its
> typographical significance. It illustrates a point that is difficult to
> appreciate in an age of automation: the printers of the Old Regime left
> their mark on their books -- literally, in Bonnemain's case, and
> figuratively in all the others. For each workman stamped each page with
> something of his individuality, and the quality of his craftsmanship
> affected the success of the product.
> Bonnemain's fingerprint really resulted from a typographical trick. By
> smearing the forms excessively with ink, he and his companion did not have
> to pull so hard at the bar of the press to get an impression. But the extra
> ink came off on their fingers and smudged the sheets during handling.
> ...
>
>
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