This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See | KQED

electronic text that is volatile and ephemeral by design, which nonetheless turns out to be one of the most persistent and available literary artifacts on the Web.

Part of our affection for places like this has to do with ‘90s nostalgia — a relatively recent past that feels extraordinarily distant. And it has to do with our interest at BBSP in identifying the moment when aesthetics that were prevalent , only to become passé *,* round the corner of reappraisal and somehow become more popping than ever .

This is a cruel confluence of time and space: just as we lose noncommercial spaces, we also see all of our own time and our actions as potentially commercial.

There is a photograph coming at you every few seconds, and hype is the lingua franca. It has become hard to stand still, wrapped in the glory of a single image, as the original viewers of old paintings used to do. The flood of images has increased our access to wonders and at the same time lessened our sense of wonder.