“There is a history of the practice of reading, of writing, of making and shaping text, of designing and publishing books. This is not just a cultural or social history, but also a material history of objects and devices. A catalogue of an exposition where the practice of reading and writing and the materiality of the book and the text is at stake, faces the present as an occasion for experimenting as well. That catalogue is part of the university, its practice of publishing, and seeks to address the present in between past and future. The catalogue dismantles the book object, seeks to disentangle the book as reading and writing device and lays down its essential components. As a container the catalogue is filled with words and images looking for a place and making space; it is closed, it can be opened but never be closed in the same way; it works, it changes and makes time; the catalogue creates layers, constructs authors, produces new references, constitutes a scene of names; it invents readers. And similar to all experiments, the time of writing and reading is irreversible.”