Bookbinding 4: Clamshell enclosure
Although I am teaching myself how to make the clamshell enclosure (Figures 1–2), the power-to-weight ratio of time versus cost must also be considered. As such, I am sourcing professional bookbinders to order a completed unit. Onward and upward.
Figure 1. Uncovered clamshell enclosure (right-side base).
Figure 2. Checking prints fit in clamshell enclosure.
Keywords
Bookbinding, Clamshell
Bibliography
Schneider, Darryn A. 2020. “Making a Clamshell Enclosure for Rare, Valuable or Fragile Books Part 1 // Adventures in Bookbinding”. DAS Bookbinding. April 18, 2020. YouTube video, 29:25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5sa0KXJf3Y.
Schneider, Darryn A. 2020. “Making a Clamshell Enclosure for Rare, Valuable or Fragile Books Part 2 // Adventures in Bookbinding”. DAS Bookbinding. April 25, 2020. YouTube video, 25:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tc6CFXq-_k.
Bookbinding 3: Knots
Keywords
Bookbinding, Knots
Bibliography
Schneider, Darryn A. 2019. “Bookbinding Knots: Square, Kettle, Weavers Knot // Adventures in Bookbinding”. DAS Bookbinding. April 24, 2019. YouTube video, 08:52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS0TknH4MUc.
Bookbinding 2: Reinforced springback sewing
After much research, reinforced springback sewing is an ideal finish for an artist's book. Although this method of bookbinding is generally applied when working with “sections”, it should work well with printmakers’ paper and single spreads.
Figure 1. Reinforced Springback Sewing (Schneider 2019).
Figure 2. Reinforced Springback Sewing Revisited (Schneider 2020).
Keywords
Bookbinding, Sewing, Reinforced springback
Bibliography
Schneider, Darryn A. 2019. “Reinforced Springback Sewing // Adventures in Bookbinding”. DAS Bookbinding. September 10, 2019. YouTube video, 14:23. https://youtu.be/sjROFTuimEA.
Schneider, Darryn A. 2020. Reinforced Springback Sewing Revisited // Adventures in Bookbinding”. DAS Bookbinding. January 3, 2020. YouTube video, 09:06. https://youtu.be/nukFW_bm0tg.
Power: Essential Works of Foucault 1954–84
In “Truth and Juridical Forms” (Foucault 2020, 52-58), contemporary philosopher Michelle Foucault discusses nineteenth-century penal law, stating that (western civilization) penal systems were transformed in the early 1800s.
The question that arises in this domain is why Foucault does not consider imprisonment to encompass a) the provocation of shame and humiliation, b) retaliation (particularly in considering the death penalty and incarceration in itself), and c) forced labour?
Poststructuralism
Several poststructuralists of the 1960s and 1970s, including Michel Foucault (1926-84) and Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98), politicised and radically challenged 'structuralism'. These poststructuralists claimed that everything we do is semiotic (mediated by cultural signs). "All we see, think and know is mediated by signs, language (hence culture)" (Cahoone 2014).
Semiotic constructions that 'suppress or ignore differences and complexities'.
Further research
The distinction between reality and appearance.
Foucaultian definitions of eighteenth-century penal ‘theories and systems’, the four types of 'punishment', and the transformation of codes and systems from the 1820s to 1860s.
"The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge" (Lyotard 1979).
In Lyotard, "language games" refer to "any social context in which language is used". Note that Foucault discusses "language games" as power plays in which knowledge is used as a political weapon and is utilised or leveraged, not as a tool of learning or attainment of higher understanding for cultural, community or social benefit, but as a tool to assert power (1994, 1–16).
Keywords
Poststructuralism, Power, Politics, Lyotard, Philosophy, Power, Michel Foucault, Knowledge, Weapon, Weaponising knowledge
Bibliography
Cahoone, Lawrence. 2014. "Postmodernism, Truth, And Power". The Great Courses. Video of lecture, 32:00. https://rmit.kanopy.com/video/postmodernism-truth-and-power.
Foucault, Michel. Power: Essential Works of Foucault 1954–84: Volume Three. 3rd ed. Edited by James D. Faubion. Translated by Robert Hurley and others. Great Britain: Penguin Books, 2020.
Heroux, Erick. 2001. "Power. Vol. 3 Of The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984". SubStance 30 (3): 143-150. doi:10.1353/sub.2001.0025.