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.
and from an earlier tweet [https://x.com/nikadubrovsky/status/2011749303753085391?s=20]:
We are gradually beginning to share my favorite project: the virtual library of @davidgraeber . These are not final versions yet, just drafts—but there’s so much I want to say about it!
According to Bakhtin, Dostoevsky invented the polyphonic novel—a world with no dominant narrator, but multiple equal voices in constant dialogue. Anthropologists gaze into other cultures, preserving the voices of the people they seek to understand. Libraries are perhaps the truest way to meet someone’s gaze.
mikhail bakhtin.. fyodor dostoevsky.. et al
library as hub ness.. open library ness.. et al
via link within link (open library) in tweet [https://books.davidgraeber.org/david-graebers-open-library/]:
David Graeber’s Open Library: Beyond the Monastic Self: Joint Mind and the Partial Illusion of Individuation
oh my.. so much here adding a separate page to take notes: nika on david’s open library ness
and similar on bsky ie [https://bsky.app/profile/nikadubrovsky.bsky.social/post/3mchfdspo2s2m]:
Bakhtin said Dostoevsky invented the polyphonic novel—multiple equal voices in constant dialogue. Anthropologists preserve the voices they seek to understand. Libraries are perhaps the truest way to meet someone’s gaze.
from link:
David’s Library
The collection of around 13500 books that David organised by various themes.
We are working on making this collection into an interactive library stage by stage.
Currently we have collected all the book titles and replicated the folder structure. There may be some errors and missing parts.
Now we’re working on collecting all the ISBN codes to show full info about each of the books.
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