Let’s eat granddad or let’s eat, Granddad. Just as Grammar can save lives and change a sentence entirely, the context of a sentence can drastically change its reception. I have been playing with the idea of context and found some interesting examples of where the context of the library allows sentences and ideas that would otherwise be unacceptable in public to be seen and accepted.
A particular example that stood out was a book called “White over Black” and had these words in large print down the spine of the book. Written across a building in a city centre this could be taken as a racist protest, an anti-racism protest or even just some awful, ignorant and bored children’s scribblings, But on a book, it becomes a wealth of knowledge, a beautiful idea to be explored and argued and counter argued and that’s all down to the context of the library. The second you walk in you become open to every great idea ever thought and written, you see everything through new, analytical, eyes. Not bound by social constructs, the library is a neutral ground, all are welcome and all respect each others purpose in being there, the furthering of knowledge is intrinsic to our future and without this no mans land of knowledge giving neutral context to all thought and ideas, we would be without a future.
This is what the library means to me, I plan to break down each section over the coming weeks and explore how books from Psychology, Science, religion, computing, history, politics, media, social studies and more are effected by the context the library gives them and the people who use them and give raw feedback on the knowledge I gain from this and how it will effect the creation of our piece, often is very conceptual ways, a stream of thought guided by this incredible site.