To the question of what constitutes an embodied reality, the answer is embedded in the material being parsed. For the book object, while every text inherently demands its own form, what exactly constitutes a page? How can the book enact and embody our story-telling or poetic distillations, furthering a reader’s immersive engagement and innovating what we thought we knew literature to be? How might content, textual form and a book’s physical rendering unite so as to yield a fully integrated literary work of art? Moreover, what if the embodied book manifests as unabridged disembodiment? Such studied synthesis of written and visual craft suggests a distinct pinnacle of literary possibility: for the book that transcends itself, so goes the reader.

And what of the body of reader? If a book is a body, and bodies are inherently books, what happens when three-dimensional realities extend beyond what you can hold in your hands? At scale, what do the rooms of a book become? What can we do there? In light of numerous disembodied realties engulfing our planet and species, what could it mean for states of inhabitance we enter into with our bodies and communities to reimagine the architectures in which we are offered ourselves?