Manuale di cyber filologia

What happens after the end of the book?

What if there were no such end? What if texts were valorised for their continuous writing process instead of their objectual finiteness? Within digital publishing, this possibility becomes plausible. This cyber-philology manual aims to explicit the slow and continuous process of editing, manipulation and modification of content that characterises our era, exasperating it. The manual, available on Amazon in both printed and electronic format, will be constantly updated, overwriting edition after edition. It contains future perspectives on philology, publishing, libraries, changes in writing through digital support, lability of information, importance of historical memory, possibilities of archiving and research offered by online platforms.

This manual is growing with the reader, who will be able to retrace the tortuous development of its writing.

It is articulated in interviews, poems, articles and many other interventions which are carefully inserted within the narrative framework edition after edition. What’s more is that, given the fact that the publication is constantly evolving, each printed copy will be original and unique, fixing a precise stage of its expansion.

This book does not intend to end.