nika on david’s library
nika dubrovsky on david graeber‘s library ness
via tweet [https://x.com/Graeber_social/status/2012180724669882829?s=20]:
Launching the virtual library of @davidgraeber For now still only drafts, but it’s happening!
notes/quotes from link [https://books.davidgraeber.org/about-davids-library/]:
About David’s Library
This library grows out of a project I have been thinking about for many years. It is not only about organizing archival information, but mostly about *creating a space where people can find one another through shared texts, questions, and interests—something closer to a social network than a traditional archival catalog or library.
*library as hub ness
1\ This library consists of three interconnected parts. The first is a physical library containing more than 1,000 books, many of them photographed and bearing David’s handwritten notes and markings. Visually, this part of the archive is still incomplete: not every book has been documented yet, and much material still needs to be gathered.
2\ The second part is what I call David’s “pirate library,” a digital collection of more than 10,000 books organized by themes and categories.
3\ The third project focuses on visualizing connections between texts, ideas, and people, bringing the library closer to the logic of a social network. For now, these projects exist separately, but we are actively thinking about how to connect them with one another, and also how to link them to another initiative of the David Graeber Institute: the music library. If we stop treating books, music, and ideas as commodities, it becomes clear that these different libraries are, in fact, parts of a single, shared project.
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