In the reformulation of the ‘publication’ concept after the electric and then electronic revolution, there is a consequent reformulation of the ‘space of publication’ which finally transcends the page and the binding as the insurmountable limits.Here the history of this process is tracked through the first optical attempts to compress the content in order to overcome those limits, conceptually preparing for a more radical technological shift. Foreseen in early science fiction visions, this shift determined by digital and the networked technologies, is dramatically collapsing the publication space towards a dimension close to the infinite, where the published object disappears in the reading machine, in what becomes a mere but sophisticated ‘container’.

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寻找无空间的书，电子出版的考古学

在电气革命和电子革命之后对``出版''概念的重新表述中，随之而来的是对``出版空间''的重新表述，最终超越了页面和装订作为不可逾越的局限。在此追溯了这一过程的历史通过最初的光学尝试来压缩内容以克服这些限制，从概念上为更根本的技术转变做准备。在早期的科幻小说愿景中可以预见，这种转变是由数字技术和网络技术决定的，它将使出版空间急剧缩小到接近无穷大的维度，在那里出版的物体消失在阅读机中，变成了一个纯粹但复杂的“容器”。 '。