Download - The Ebook Avant-Garde
![Page 1: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The Ebook Avant-Garde
Sanders Kleinfeld O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Books in Browsers V October 24, 2014
![Page 2: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
What do we mean by “avant-garde”?
![Page 3: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Avant-Garde!
http://img2-3.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080226/christian-chris_ep8_l.jpg
![Page 4: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
What do we mean by “avant-garde”
literature?
![Page 5: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Above by mightymightymatze: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mightymightymatze/5789528922/
![Page 6: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Avant-Garde != Highbrow(although sometimes it may be)
![Page 7: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Avant-Garde != Good(although sometimes it may be)
![Page 8: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Avant-Garde == Interrogation of Form
![Page 9: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Three principles of the ebook avant-garde
![Page 10: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
PRINCIPLE #1:
“PRECESSION” OF BOOK SIMULACRA
![Page 11: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
“Representation stems from the principle of the equivalence of the sign and of the
real….Simulation, on the contrary, stems…from the radical negation of the sign as
value…the reversion and death sentence of every reference”
!—Jean Baudrillard
“The Precession of Simulacra”
![Page 12: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Baudrillard’s four “successive phases of the image,” as applied to ebooks
![Page 13: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
#1: “it is the reflection of a profound reality”
![Page 14: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
#2: “it masks and denatures a
profound reality”
![Page 15: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
![Page 16: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
#3: “it masks the absence of a
profound reality”
![Page 17: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
THE FIFTY YEAR SWORD(https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-fifty-year-sword/id562071307?mt=11)
![Page 18: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
#4: “it has no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is its own pure
simulacrum”
?
![Page 19: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
DEVICE 6(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/device-6/id680366065?mt=8)
![Page 20: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
DEVICE 6(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/device-6/id680366065?mt=8)
![Page 21: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
DEVICE 6(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/device-6/id680366065?mt=8)
![Page 22: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
PRINCIPLE #2:
THE SURPRISE OF ERSATZ TACTILITY
![Page 23: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
What happens when you
touch everything?
!
![Page 24: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
YELLOW SUBMARINE(https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/yellow-submarine-english/id479687204?mt=11)
![Page 25: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
YELLOW SUBMARINE(https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/yellow-submarine-english/id479687204?mt=11)
![Page 26: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
PRINCIPLE #3:
NARRATIVE PLIABILITY
![Page 27: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Choose your own ebook adventure
![Page 28: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
80 DAYS(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/80-days/id892812659?mt=8)
![Page 29: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
80 DAYS(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/80-days/id892812659?mt=8)
![Page 30: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
80 DAYS(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/80-days/id892812659?mt=8)
![Page 31: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
AVANT-GARDE WIDGETS FOR EPUB 3
http://github.com/sandersk/ebook_avant_garde
![Page 32: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
INVISIBLE EINK
http://github.com/sandersk/ebook_avant_garde
![Page 34: The Ebook Avant-Garde](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022052600/5589b436d8b42a02598b4609/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
MATH.RANDOM(SHAKESPEARE)
http://github.com/sandersk/ebook_avant_garde