by Jenae Cohn | Jun 22, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Today’s experiences at the institute made me think about my apartment. In my living room, one whole wall of my apartment is full of bookshelves. They are obscenely large – purchased from a closing Borders bookstore in 2011 – and they fill the room...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 21, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
In roughly 3200 B.C., people used mobile devices. Sumerian clay tablets weren’t exactly like smartphones, but they had a lot of the same benefits: you could hold them in the palm of your hand, you could access records of past transactions or conversations, and...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 20, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Yesterday, I sat at the desk, hunched over a piece of wax thread, and a stack of papers. I was supposed to be making a coptic book, a medieval style of book where the papers are woven together to create an organically coiled binding. The process is strenuous,...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
What happens when you get a group of people in a room together who all love to talk about and think about what it means for the book to be a form of technology? An immediate answer is simple: you get a generative collaborative of people who are eager to work together...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 29, 2014 | Literature, Personal
Perhaps one of the most common questions I get asked as an English grad student is, “So, do you still like to read? For fun?” When I tell people that yes, I promise that studying books and words has not soured them at all for me, they’re usually a...
