El libro del fin del mundo

In the 17th century, Leibniz proposed to create an encyclopedia that would bring together all the fields of human knowledge. This led him to be interested in the works of Raimundo Llull, Athanasius Kircher or John Dee and to anticipate the ideas of Vannevar Bush or Ted Nelson by several centuries. The book of the end of the world is also constituted as an encyclopedia, only, in this case, it is an unfinished and open corpus, providing a questioning about the space of identities and differences according to which we distribute, recognize and name our world. Reminiscent of Aloysius Bertrand, Marcel Schwob, or medieval bestiaries, The Book of the End of the World proposes the creation of different possible worlds, autonomous universes, each with its own order, laws, and regularities. The inclusion of hypertext works and the link to the book's site on the Internet emphasize the notions of non-linearity and bifurcation implicit in the conception of the work.