It’s telling how telling a telling can be | Are.na Editorial

Footnotes explain, give credit, share an anecdote, help define something. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines footnote as “a relatively subordinate or minor part,” and marginalia as “nonessential items.” Although many artists and scholars explore annotation practices in their work, I’m interested mainly in the form it takes. My continuous invest

Danielle Aubert collected, scanned, and compiled 100 used copies of Ursula Le Guin’s 1970s sci-fi novel The Dispossessed to make Marking the Dispossessed — a version of the book that features annotations and marginalia only. We don’t see the words so we can focus on how others have experienced them in the past instead.