{"id":48423,"date":"2017-02-09T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=48423"},"modified":"2018-07-28T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T12:20:35","slug":"konversasjonsleksikon-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/konversasjonsleksikon-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"konversasjonsleksikon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Een Noorse boekwinkel heeft een encyclopedie gemaakt die honderden artikelen bevat, woorden, dingen, plaatsen, mensen en emoties, die de eigenschap delen dat ze onGooglebaar zijn en in tegenspraak met conventionele waarheden. <!---  'all share the trait of being unGoogleable and entirely in disagreement with conventional truths.' ---><\/p>\n<p>Ik ben nieuwsgierig naar &#8216;the trait of being unGoogleable&#8217;. <!--- Hoe kan dat? I just cannot believe this so I have to see with my own eyes. ---><br \/>\n<!--- Op de knop gedrukt.\nDaarna gaan googlen. ---><\/p>\n<p>Natuurlijk blijven dingen niet eeuwig unGoogleable, zoals blanco gebieden op een kaart niet eeuwig onbezocht blijven. Google doet me denken aan koning Middas, alles wat je in haar oren fluistert verandert op een dag in iets Googlebaars. <!--- Google is Columbus, ze vaart graag in een boot naar de horizon. ---><\/p>\n<p>Hier het lemma van George Saunders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ventriloquist<\/strong>, a person inordinately fond of a puppet. This relation is often dysfunctional and may become abusive. This psychological condition may become so pronounced that the &#8216;ventriloquist&#8217; will claim to be speaking for the puppet. The puppet will have no means of refuting this charge. \u2013 <em>I\u2019m not a puppet, I am an independent being!<\/em> the puppet will say, and the &#8216;ventriloquist&#8217; will, at that precise moment, move his mouth, just a little, so that it looks like he is trying and failing not to move his mouth at all, i.e., so that it appears that it is him, the &#8216;ventriloquist&#8217; speaking, and not the puppet. No matter how much the puppet protests, the wily &#8216;ventriloquist&#8217; will continue to claim credit. \u2013 <em>He\u2019s a liar!<\/em> the puppet may cry. \u2013 <em>It is me speaking, not him, and I do not need him to pull those strings in order to move my arms and legs, as I am right now, this moment, doing!<\/em> And the crowd will roar with laughter. Only late at night, when the puppet (commonly and pejoratively referred to as &#8216;the dummy,&#8217; by the &#8216;ventriloquist,&#8217; as part of his ongoing attempt to maintain hegemony over the puppet via ritual humiliation) has been imprisoned inside his (or her) coffin-like holding apparatus, will the puppet be allowed to speak without the &#8216;ventriloquist&#8217; claiming credit for it, because the &#8216;ventriloquist&#8217; is up in the hotel bar, drinking away his shame at the outrage he is nightly committing. \u2013 <em>I am me<\/em>, the puppet may softly say. \u2013 <em>I am me, no matter what<\/em>. But there is no one to hear, except an elderly janitor \u2013 only too bad, the janitor is old and nearly deaf, and the puppet is speaking so very softly. <small>\u2013 George Saunders<\/small><\/p>\n<p>De encyclopedie negeert consensus <i>in favour of subjective examination,&nbsp;<\/i>&#8216;lighting words, people, places and concepts from new angles, just to see if they couldn\u2019t mean something more or other than what they\u2019d usually signified; to be messy, contradictory, wildly unpredictable&#8217;. <small>\u2013 Cappelens Forslag, Bernt Ankersgt. 4, 0183 Oslo, Norway<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!--- Waar al je geld naar toe gaat zegt iets over wie je bent, zegt ze. ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- A \u201csubjective encyclopedia\u201d, described by its creators as a \u201cfreak of publishing nature\u201d designed to save a struggling Norwegian bookshop from closure, has proved a hit after a host of well-known names including Jarvis Cocker, George Saunders and Jonathan Lethem contributed entries. Written in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and English, The Conversational Lexicon was the brainchild of bookseller Pil Cappelen Smith and Andreas Cappelen and was a last-ditch bid to stop their Oslo shop, Cappelens Forslag, from closing. The plan has paid off: each print run of the work, first published in 2014, has sold out and the future of the bookshop secured. The latest edition has just gone on sale.  Cappelen Smith said: \u201cThe idea was to produce a book that would keep the store\u2019s doors open and at the same time settle for good and all that inane discussion about which was the better format, the ebook or the paper book.\u201d Contributions to the reference work were sought from leading artists and writers. All had to challenge traditional views of dictionaries as factual and authoritative, Cappelen Smith said. Instead they were to be conversation starters \u201cfreed from the demand for factual accuracy\u201d. The initial print run of 1,100 books was crowdfunded by 450 supporters, who between them raised \u20ac50,524 (\u00a343,582), more than double the funds initially sought. Editorial contributions to the illustrated reference book were made by 87 predominantly Scandinavian authors, artists and film-makers as well as a handful of English-speaking names added subsequently. Entries ignored consensus in favour of subjective examination, \u201clying to tell the truth; lighting words, people, places and concepts from new angles, just to see if they couldn\u2019t mean something more or other than what they\u2019d usually signified; to be messy, contradictory, wildly unpredictable,\u201d Cappelen Smith said. Those recruited to help were chosen for their \u201csense of playfulness and generosity of spirit, which is evident in their work\u201d, he added. George Saunders was approached because \u201cthere\u2019s a sort of delight with the possibility of language even in [his] darkest stories, combined with a keen sense of the absurd, that made me think he might be up for something like a commercially backwards, subjective encyclopedia built as a life raft for an independent bookstore\u201d. Advertisement Jarvis Cocker, who contributed an entry on dawdling \u2013 \u201cpronounced door-dul \u2026 The key to a good word is fine rounded sounds\u201d \u2013 had stopped at the shop on a visit to Oslo when he was approached. \u201cJarvis walked in to the store one afternoon in March, and by the time he left he\u2019d signed on,\u201d Cappelen Smith said. Freed from the constraints of factual accuracy and objectivity, contributors have responded with idiosyncratic verve. American author Ron Currie Jr provided a five-page exploration of death (\u201ca state of being not entirely antonymous with life, but often misunderstood as such\u201d). Danish writer Mathilde Walter Clark wrote a pithy definition of a writer\u2019s studio as \u201cvery much like a painter\u2019s studio or a sculptor\u2019s, except full of imaginary objects, like these two Pecan Trees (Fig 17)\u201d. The entry is followed by a blank space into which readers can project their own images of the trees. Karine Nyborg\u2019s entry for asphalt is an evocative memory of cycling as a child. \u201cYou see the cars on the road trying to brake for you, soundlessly, like a silent movie, the wind fills your ears and you fly through the crossing; the world is open, it\u2019s spring,\u201d writes the author and academic. Rock\u2019n\u2019roll is defined simply with a picture of the late M\u00f6torhead frontman Lemmy who died. Not all those approached agreed to take part. A polite refusal was received from Paul Auster, while Cappelen Smith is still waiting to hear from Stephen Fry, Laurie Anderson and Werner Herzog. His favourite entry? \u201cCraig Clevenger\u2019s Spontaneous Incorporeal Sentience.\u201d That entry concludes: \u201cWhile the theory remains hotly contested and without widespread acceptance, it is nonetheless gaining traction among younger academics who are quick to point out that self-aware intelligence, whose existence is relatively fleeting but nonetheless believes itself to be the centre of creation, is not without precedent in the universe.\u201d The Conversational Lexicon is available in three editions \u2013 leather, hide and monkfish-bound. The latter is from a print run of three that retail for \u20ac1,000 each. The other cheapest edition retails at \u20ac74. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/feb\/03\/george-saunders-and-jarvis-cocker-help-turn-freak-of-publishing-nature-into-hit ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Een Noorse boekwinkel heeft een encyclopedie gemaakt die honderden artikelen bevat, woorden, dingen, plaatsen, mensen en emoties, die de eigenschap delen dat ze onGooglebaar zijn en in tegenspraak met conventionele waarheden. Ik ben nieuwsgierig naar &#8216;the trait of being unGoogleable&#8217;. 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