On February 5th, 2021, I presented the lead lecture for this year’s in trasmissioni lecture series at AGO Modena Fabbriche Culturali, which was recorded. As the AGO site described the lecture: “L’intervento di Jeffrey Schnapp sarà dedicato al tema del codex, per ricostruire le tappe dell’evoluzione del libro dalla pagina allo schermo (e viceversa), segnalando i cambiamenti tecnologici, le pratiche estetiche e i mutamenti nella comunicazione della ricerca connessi all’avvento del “libro elettrico”. Una storia…
 
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I recently published a short essay on the topic of recent monument wars that places my experience as part of the team that developed BZ ’18-’45 in the northern Italian city of Bolzano in dialogue with the conversations taking place in North and South America over monuments and historical memory. The essay begins: Where do monuments go to die? The question may appear incongruous given the urges that have motivated the making of monuments since…
 
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