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Policing a poem -- A conundrum -- A communication network -- Ideological danger? -- Court politics -- Crime and punishment -- A missing dimension -- The larger context -- Poetry and politics -- Song -- Music -- Chansonniers -- Reception -- A diagnosis -- Public opinion -- The songs and poems distributed by the Fourteen -- Texts of "Qu'une batarde de catin" -- Poetry and the fall of Maurepas -- The trail of the Fourteen -- The popularity of tunes -- An electronic cabaret : Paris street songs, 1748-1750

De la Historia del Libro a la Historia de la Comunicación, cuando, siguiendo a Mornet, se intenta comprender los orígenes de la Revolución Francesa, y en particular el papel de la "Ilustración", los dos grandes enfoques surgidos hace más de veinticinco años, uno de ellos a través de la historia social y el otro a través del análisis filosófico de las ideologías, no ofrecen respuestas del todo satisfactorias al problema. Las transformaciones sociales, que se estaban produciendo en toda Europa, no bastan por sí mismas para explicar la peculiaridad del caso francés, mientras que los análisis del discurso realizan una descontextualización social que lleva a atribuir una autonomía excesiva a la eficacia simbólica específica de los discursos políticos y filosóficos. Entre las "ideas" y los "estados de la sociedad", el trabajo tiene en cuenta los modos de comunicación, en particular los efectos específicos de la comunicación a través de los libros, que se desarrolló con fuerza en el periodo prerrevolucionario y ejerce una acción simbólica mucho más fuerte que la simple comunicación oral.

From the History of the Book to the History of Communication, when, following Mornet, one tries to understand the origins of the French Revolution, and in particular the role of the "Enlightenment", the two major approaches that emerged more than twenty-five years ago, one working through social history and the other through the philo-sophical analysis of ideologies, do not provide entirely satisfactory answers to the problem. Social transformations, which were taking place throughout Europe, are not in themselves sufficient to explain the peculiarity of the French case, while analyses of discourse perform a social decontextualization leading to excessive autonomy being ascribed to the specific symbolic efficacy of political and philosophical discourses. Between "ideas" and "states of society", one has to take account of the modes of communication, in particular the specifie effects of communication through books, which developed strongly in the pre-revolutionary period and exerts a much stronger symbolic action than simple oral communication. ; De la Historia del Libro a la Historia de la Comunicación, cuando, siguiendo a Mornet, se intenta comprender los orígenes de la Revolución Francesa, y en particular el papel de la "Ilustración", los dos grandes enfoques surgidos hace más de veinticinco años, uno de ellos a través de la historia social y el otro a través del análisis filosófico de las ideologías, no ofrecen respuestas del todo satisfactorias al problema. Las transformaciones sociales, que se estaban produciendo en toda Europa, no bastan por sí mismas para explicar la peculiaridad del caso francés, mientras que los análisis del discurso realizan una descontextualización social que lleva a atribuir una autonomía excesiva a la eficacia simbólica específica de los discursos políticos y filosóficos. Entre las "ideas" y los "estados de la sociedad", el trabajo tiene en cuenta los modos de comunicación, en particular los efectos específicos de la comunicación a través de los libros, que se desarrolló con fuerza ...

In this note, Robert Darnton, renowned culture and book historian, shares some reflections around the book invention and the historical evolution of its commercial circuits. By commenting the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries book piracy and the recent attempts of platforms such as Google of creating open virtual libraries, Darnton brings up the debate surrounding the tension between the copyright and the democratization of reading by making books more accessible to everyone. ; En esta nota, Robert Darnton, renombrado historiador cultural y del libro, comparte unas reflexiones en torno a esta invención y el devenir histórico de su circulación comercial. Comentando la piratería de libros de los siglos XVII y XVIII y los intentos contemporáneos de plataformas como Google de crear repositorios virtuales, Darnton pone en debate la tensión que existe entre los derechos de autor y la democratización de la lectura a través de una mayor accesibilidad a los libros.

I would like to make a case for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) by contrasting two tendencies that run through the history of books: democratization and commercialization. To put it so baldly, however, runs the risk of stranding the argument on some remote, moral high ground, and I want to do the opposite. By discussing down-to-earth contingencies and pragmatic considerations, I want to follow a path that will lead through difficult terrain toward an elevated goal: a library that will make our country's cultural heritage accessible and free of charge, not only to our countrymen and women, but to everyone in the world. That, I admit, has a utopian ring to it, and I might as well confess at the outset to some sympathy with utopianism. It challenges the assumption that the way things are is the way they have to be and that the everyday, workaday world is firmly fixed in what we take to be reality. History shows that things can fall apart, sometimes in a way that releases utopian energy. Revolutions often produce such an effect, and therefore I will cite some revolutionary changes, even though it raises the danger of confusing history with homily. Let me begin by invoking the ideal of openness. It is a happy notion, which calls up felicitous associations: "open-minded," "open markets," "open covenants openly arrived at," the "Song of the Open Road." In the world of libraries, openness has a particularly positive ring, thanks to the movement for Open Access, which promises to open up books and journal articles for the benefit of everyone.

Having accepted the invitation to revisit my essay of 1982, "What Is the History of Books?", I find that I can do it only in the first person singular and therefore must ask to be excused for indulging in some autobiographical detail. I would also like to make a disclaimer: in proposing a model for studying the history of books twenty-four years ago, I did not mean to tell book historians how they ought to do their jobs. I hoped that the model might be useful in a heuristic way and never thought of it as comparable to the models favored by economists, the kind in which you insert data, work it over, and arrive at a bottom line. (I do not believe that bottom lines exist in history.) It seemed to me in 1982 that the history of books was suffering from fissiparousness: experts were pursuing such specialized studies that they were losing contact with one another. The esoteric elements of book history needed to be integrated into an overview that would show how the parts could connect to form a whole—or what I characterized as a communications circuit. The tendency toward fragmentation and specialization still exists.