The Library of Babel
This one will do your head in. Jonathan Basile's genius was in realising that you don’t need actual infinity to feel its weight – just a taste.
The Library of Babel is a mind-bending conceptual and digital project inspired by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges’ 1941 short story The Library of Babel.
In the Borges version, the “universe” is an infinite library containing every possible book of a fixed format – essentially every possible arrangement of letters, punctuation and spaces. Most of th…
