Add to ORKGCollections are mysterious things. A book or text can provide an initial model of a collection. Letters, words, sentences, paragraphs collide to form some sense of meaning. Disparate elements, brought in proximity of each other, gain significance through such closeness. These spheres of related elements often coalesce into forms called texts, which are read for their formal coherence as individual entities. Walter Benjamin, while at times interested in the formal attributes of a specific text, alerts us to the possibility of a greater significance through the act of book collecting. Placing texts in new and different proximities to other texts, what Benjamin refers to as unpacking, can highlight lines of flight (Deleuze/Guattari, p. 12)...