"The Library of Babel"
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Editor :
SHINODA Takatoshi
English Proofreader :
Jonathan Mark HALL
Translation:r :
Jonathan Mark HALL, Elyssa FAISON,
Sharon HAYASHI, John HOCKING,
Anne McKNIGHT, MIXOGUCHI Akiko, TAKAYAMA Hiroshi, SHIMASAKI Yoshinobu, Ann HUSS, and Britta ERICKSON
Art Direction :
NAKAGAKI Nobuo
Design :
FUNAKI Nobuo
Design :
FUNAKI Arinori, and WATANABE Mariko (Nakagaki Design Office)
Publisher :
YOSHIDA Hajimu
Published by :
NTT Publishing Co., Ltd.
Printing and Binding by :
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.



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Foreword
KANEKO Takashi

Texts

110
How We've Been Characterized
--Leibniz, Lavater, Borges
TAKAYAMA Hiroshi
104
The Marvelous Story of A Book from the Sky
The Many Cang Jies at the Tower of Babel
TAKEDA Masaya
099
"The Library of Babel"
NAKAMURA Keiji
091
Were it aSingle Anthology
Infinite Chains and LetterPlay
KOMATSUZAKI Takuo
088
"The Library of Babel"
--Issues of Media
HATANAKA Minoru

Catalogue

Artist's Statement /
047
Ideas from Borges and Casares
YAMAGUCHI Katsuhiro
053
Borges' Prophecy
KOHMURA Masao
061
Directions for Using "The Library of Babel"
KOHMURA Masao
069
"To Frighten Heaven and Earth and Make the Spirits Cry"
XU Bing

118
Descriptions of the Exhibited Works
145
Artists' Data

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