La carte à jouer, support d’écriture au xviiie siècle
Among several corpora of XVIIIth century drafts, those by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Georges-Louis Lesage show a peculiar use of playing cards as writing support. Claire Bustarret studies the motives and practical modalities of such a diverted use — which consists, from a material viewpoint, in turni...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2014-11-01
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| Series: | Socio-anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/socio-anthropologie/2255 |
| Summary: | Among several corpora of XVIIIth century drafts, those by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Georges-Louis Lesage show a peculiar use of playing cards as writing support. Claire Bustarret studies the motives and practical modalities of such a diverted use — which consists, from a material viewpoint, in turning up the cards. Do the philosopher and the scientist borrow this façon de faire from other existing writing practices ? Using playing cards to write appears indeed as a rather common device, used for various purposes, among which library catalogues is the most well known. Hence the reversed playing card used for writing could be considered as a forerunner of the index-card, a kind of support bound to develop into a most important tool for information management up to the electronic turn of writing practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1276-8707 1773-018X |