Home -- `The place of one's dwelling and nurturing', a definition dated back to 1460 by the OED, defines us by the way we think and perceive the world we live in'.

The most important home for ideas in our culture is books. The Printing Press is possibly the first `machine célibataire', the celibacy machine that steps in where human relations leave off.

Reading at home was a common activity until the TV took over and sucked up everybody in the same story rather than leaving the diversity of different books for different interests. (Electronic) Books of the next generation will emerge from the books we know today, but as Alan Ginsberg points out, we have to break up the old form as gently as possible to leave space for a new form to rise.

This page is an excerpt from a presentation by Florian Brody called My Home Is My Memory given at the Doors of Perception 2 conference.