This is the third book in this five-volume series on books, libraries, and communities, at what is the midpoint of the project before its two-year derailment by the global pandemic. All three volumes demonstrate an evolutionary timeline of their own, as well as being reflective of global shifts in discourse around knowledge production and access, ideological stances, and strategies of resistance. The contents of this book partly reflect a pushback against middle-aged spread, of the need to inject urgency into the complacency of pacifism and neutrality as the only tools that the high-minded must employ. A critical expansiveness is needed in rethinking the nature of the book, the library, and the human impulse of violence. There being no easy answers for the latter means that the reasons why we still default so easily to destruction remains a disaffected question, only partially explored here, and pending some resolution, or at least definitive position, by the final volume" --From the introduction by Shubigi Rao.

"Taking the form of a book, film and paper maze, Shubigi Rao's exhibition, 'Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, curated by Ute Meta Bauer and commissioned by National Arts Council, Singapore, explores the persistence of endangered languages, the futures of public and alternative libraries, and the cosmopolitanism of regional communities that have blossomed and waned in historic centers of print and trade, including Venice and Singapore" --Author's website.