{"id":2,"date":"2013-02-27T07:47:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T07:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/ephemera\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-11-09T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T03:08:12","slug":"what_is_dead_paper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/what_is_dead_paper\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Dead Paper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Shredded-paper-grey-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Shredded-paper-grey-sm.png\" alt=\"shredded paper\" width=\"200\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been writing about print on paper for more than 20 years. In that time I&#8217;ve learnt a little bit about how it is made, how it is used and what happens to it when it&#8217;s no longer wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Much of what appears on paper exists only briefly and goes largely unnoticed &#8211; rather like life in fact &#8211; but I&#8217;ve always appreciated the skill and and effort that goes into producing something so instantly disposable.<\/p>\n<p>More than anything, I&#8217;ve enjoyed the heterogeneity and ubiquity of print on paper, the fact that it appears everywhere in many wondrous forms, both good and bad.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Ephemera (\u1f10\u03c6\u03ae\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1) \u2013 for a day<\/h4>\n<p>One day I was writing a story about the Oxford English Dictionary and I came across the figure of John Johnson who was the printer at OUP when the first edition of the OED was published in 1928.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was also a collector of\u00a0 printed ephemera and founded The Constance Meade Collection of Ephemeral Printing which today is housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. His definition of ephemera was\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything which would ordinarily go into the waste paper basket after use, everything printed which is not actually a book \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, rubbish \u2013 anything that would normally be discarded because it has no intrinsic value nor historical significance.<\/p>\n<p>So in the spirit of Johnson\u2019s definition, I give you the Dead Paper collection of ephemera \u2013 transitory, fragmentary and practically useless, of little interest or value to anybody other than myself.<\/p>\n<p>A load of old rubbish indeed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been writing about print on paper for more than 20 years. In that time I&#8217;ve learnt a little bit about how it is made, how it is used and what happens to it when it&#8217;s no longer wanted. Much of what appears on paper exists only briefly and goes largely unnoticed &#8211; rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}