Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world...

TO DESCRIBE THE WORLD IS TO CREATE ANOTHER.

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Science Fiction • Documentary

To describe the world is to create another. A disembodied narrator recounts the life and death of Pliny the Elder, author of the first encyclopedia. Excerpts from Pliny’s "Naturalis Historia," echo between past and present, real and virtual, tracing the evolution of knowledge from written encyclopedias to modern AI algorithms.

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Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world...

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Federica Ferro

Federica Ferro

Narrator

PTE 003.2

PTE 003.2

Pliny

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