Marginalia
From Dead Media Archive
Marginalia is the act of writing in margins.
We underline (particularly if we are students or harried book-reviewers). Sometimes we scribble a note in the margin. But how few of us write marginalia in Erasmus's or Coleridge's sense, how few of us annotate with copious rigor.
- George Steiner, The Uncommon Reader
Contents
A Definition
The Early Literate Elite
Forms of Marginalia
Emendation
Scholia
Reader's Signs
Annotation
Footnotes & Citation
Paper Production
Benjamin? Palimpsest Scarcity techniques
Mediatic Etymological Approach
What Is It About Books?
Marginalia as an Archaeology of Ideas
documenting ideas through changing technologies