The Future of the Book

Contents: Preface / Patrizia Violi Introduction / Geoffrey Nunberg Books in time / Carla Hesse The pragmatics of the new: Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus / James J. O'Donnell Material matters: the past and futurology of the book / Paul Duguid Farewell to the information age / Geoffrey Nunberg The book as symbolic object / Régis Debray Toward metareading / Patrick Bazin Hypertext and authorship / Luca Toschi Twenty minutes into the future, or how are we moving beyond the book? / George P. Landow The body of the text / Raffaele Simone Ekphrasis, virtual reality, and the future of writing / Jay David Bolter (Re)placing the author : "A book in the ruins" / Michael Joyce Afterword / Umberto Eco