CRASSH | Jonathon Keats reflects on the Library's Cambridge branch

Library of the Great Silence founder and Chief Terrestrial Librarian Jonathon Keats reflects on some of the objects in the Cambridge branch.
About the Library:
The Library of the Great Silence is a unique research facility founded by the San Francisco conceptual artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats and dedicated to examining existential risks of the present, and to facilitating discussion about future flourishing, by investigating societal transformations from the past.
Instead of shelving books, the Library collects objects, each of which is open to interpretation by everyone. Objects are chosen based on their pivotal significance. Examples include stone tools, coins, and silicon microchips.
For the Cambridge Festival 2023, a Cambridge branch of the Library exhibited crowd-sourced objects at the Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge.
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Image credit: Vincenzo Mancuso