Shadow Libraries

Lawrence Liang

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Issue #37
September 2012










Notes
1

Esther Shipman and Sascha Hastings eds., Logotopia: The Library in Architecture Art and the Imagination, (Cambridge Galleries: Abc Art Books Canada, 2008).

2

Alberto Manguel, “My Library” in Hastings and Shipman eds. Logotopia, The Library in Art and Architecture and the Imagination, (Cambridge Galleries: ABC Art Books Canada, 2008).

3

Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, (Yale University Press 2009).

4

Ray Hastings and Esther Shipman, eds. Logotopia: The Library in Architecture Art and the Imagination. Cambridge Galleries / ABC Art Books Canada, 2008.

5

Jacques Rancière, The Nights of Labour: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth Century France, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991).

6

Michel Foucault, “Different Spaces,” in Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology, ed. James D. Faubion (New York: The New Press, 1998), 179; For Foucault on language and heterotopias see The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, (New York: Pantheon, 1970).

7

Ibid, xv.

8

In Foucault, “Different Spaces,” which was presented as a lecture to the Architecture Studies Circle in 1967, a few years after the writing of The Order of Things.

This essay is a part of a work I am doing for an exhibition curated by Raqs Media Collective, Sarai Reader 09. The show began on August 19, 2012, with a deceptively empty space containing only the proposal, with ideas for the artworks to come over a period of nine months. See https://sarai.net/sarai-reader-09-projections/.