Kaashi, or Varanasi, is one of those places to surely feature on anyone’s Freudian bucket list.
Crónica de Viaje by Jorge Carrión is a literary work printed in the form of a laptop that uses the Google search engine. Carrión is on a mission to find and learn more about the history of his Andalusian family. He uses Google's features such as images, videos, and maps to discover his identity and history.
Crónica de viaje de Jorge Carrión es un texto literario en la forma impresa de un ordenador que usa el buscador de Google. Carrión esta en una misión para encontrar y aprender más sobre la historia de su familia andaluza que fue perdida durante la guerra civil española. Usa los recursos de Google como las imágenes, los videos y los mapas para descubrir esta parte de su identidad.
"Solo fui una vez, se hacia en el Parque Forestal, me choco ver a una niñá que yo conocia, no me acuerdo si del colegio o del barrio, vestida de sevillana, a mi nunca me disfrazaron, de hecho no recuerdo nada tipicamente andaluz en mi infancia, a parte de los viajes periodicos a Santaella y aquella unica vez que fuimos a La Alpujarra..." (p. 9)
"Si yo te contara... Mi abuelo, el padre de mi madre, se murio sentao, cavando en la viña, cerca del rio, lo encontraron sentao, y muerto." (p. 13)
Text was originally published in 2009. Republished in 2014 to mimic a laptop.
From Samantha Gorman's artist statement for The Book of Kells: "Deconstruction is a weaving of historical study, literary theory, travel narrative, meditative prose, mystical contemplation, and academic inquiry. All elements are united by research and reflection on The Book of Kells, an illuminated Latin version of the Bible circa 800 AD, and the techniques that produced it. The prose of Deconstruction is informed by my travel and close survey of The Book of Kells at Trinity College Dublin. Additionally, Deconstruction touches upon the evolution of how writing is disseminated from manuscript culture to Gutenberg and the Internet, as well as how these media are implicated in the increasing liberation of the reader, both in terms of social access and the reading practice itself ... Reflecting on the original manuscript's hypertextual melding of text and image, the icons of The Book prompt the texts of Deconstruction: lexias emerge from and are symbolized by designs on the manuscript's folios. Overall, the work is a study on the original manuscript within the scriptorium of electronic media and methods."
Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/13Fall/editor.html