Joël Castonguay-Bélanger

Lecture: What Is a Book? Authorship Textuality and Reading from the Age of the Codex to the Digital World
The lecture will discuss the mutations of written culture, and particularly the definition of the “book” from the birth of the codex to the digital age. It will focus on the challenges launched by the new modes for compassing, publishing, and appropriating texts to the categories and practices which defined, at least from the eighteenth-century on, “l’ordre du discours,” to quote Foucault.