The Dance of Joyful Knowledge: Inside Georges Didi-Huberman's Monumental Note Archive
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The Dance of Joyful Knowledge: Inside Georges Didi-Huberman's Monumental Note Archive
For centuries, artists and intellectuals from Leonardo da Vinci to Virginia Woolf, from John Locke to Octavia Butler, have recorded the ideas they found most interesting in a book they carried around with them, known as a “commonplace book.”II
All he did was take brief notes about the ideas that caught his attention in a text on a separate piece of paper: “I make a note with the bibliographic details. On the backside I would write ‘on page x is this, on page y is that,’ and then it goes into the bibliographic slip-box where I collect everything I read.” (Hagen, 1997)[13] But before he st
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