It's Yet Another Example of deBord's "Society of the Spectacle", where the knowledge contained within the book devolves into "having" the book, and finally, into the "appearance of having" a library of elegantly bound volumes.
It's Yet Another Example of deBord's "Society of the Spectacle", where the knowledge contained within the book devolves into "having" the book, and finally, into the "appearance of having" a library of elegantly bound volumes.