Elizabeth Eisenstein – From scribal scarcity to the disruptive text. There’s nothing new about saying that printing was important in the reformation. What’s interesting to me is the way printing becomes an emancipating force for the first time. …and inventing the idea of censorship…the index of prohibited books…they would sell well …paper bullets and the pamphlet wars… …the real cost was the paper…these things were operating in basements and garrets.

27 May 2009 in video