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International workshop University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ 30–31 May, 2023
Who wants to live forever? 🎵 … Perhaps some kinds of manuscript do.
In many cases, deliberate ‘text destruction’ is not intended to impede the transmission of knowledge, nor does it imply the destruction of writing media. Rather, it is a resource- and space-saving option in the context of limited resources and an ever-growing need for new texts. Education, administration and note-taking are typical contexts in which this applies. An ideal ‘rewriting’ technology, therefore, would allow the writing surface to be manipulated in such a way that it could be erased and rewritten