Why Margeit?

Margeit and the democratic right of reply

‍

You have surely wondered how best to publicly respond to certain works that you believe are misinterpreted without your anonymity silencing your reasoning in the depths of indifference? The Margeit response is finally here to unearth your intellectual observations from the abyss. This response initially appeared fragmented to the creators in the face of the multiple shortcomings posed by the scientific and intellectual world. While browsing essays in bookstore aisles and pointing out historical disparities aloud, line by line, the creators realized that their intellectual concerns only benefited booksellers. Meanwhile, the books themselves sold thousands of copies. They then wondered how they could exercise their right to reply without resorting to a complex and elitist system. Publishing books in response to these works would have been too cumbersome: the editorial system was overloaded, selective, and commercial, essentially unreachable without a network or reputation. Their observations spanned many pages, yet they lacked enough material to write an entire book. They were also not visible enough on social media for their responses to the texts they had just read to have any impact. At that moment, the creators felt a discomfort: public response to these authors was impossible, and intellectual exchange was unattainable. How many researchers or enthusiasts read, skeptically, books with questionable interpretations and how many of them put them down, defeated, in silence? They would need a space that takes them directly to the source, a free, easily accessible, and universal space.

‍

The universal margin: the compilation of all human knowledge concerning a specific page of a given book

‍

The concept of Margeit emerges as a universal social network allowing precise text comments, page by page, allowing users to respond to a passage in the book while sharing their own thoughts. Margeit thus becomes a platform where users can read comments from other intellectuals and thinkers from various social backgrounds. In this way, they can access the collective human knowledge concerning passages that provoke their questioning or remark. Margeit is described as the abstract book of the book, a large universal margin where comments are called "margins" and where pagination is crucial. A concern for precision is emphasized, requiring sources for summaries or comments, as "margins" can only be made on the page.

‍

Its abstraction offers you a new relationship with your own works and those of others

‍

Margeit is the first platform for books and abstract margins. This long-term abstraction, hopefully, will change individuals' relationship with the creation of the mind. Some societies tend to amalgamate, with the editorial support of large groups, the correctness of the mind of a book and the publishing house to which it belongs. The mind drew its survival, legitimacy, and death from it. With Margeit, and in the long term, the work of the mind will no longer be the shadow of its support, but rather its light; the support will also gain an entirely new autonomy. The text will no longer swell with pride under the tight seams of luxurious editions, convinced of having already conquered the world, nor will the unknown texts, sometimes brilliant, tremble with sadness and anxiety under the poor glue of a few forgotten publishing houses. They will undress, with Margeit, from their social clothes, to show only their true nature, their purity, their essence. Thus, Margeit stands out for its originality, universality, and democratization of knowledge. It offers a vast corpus of scholarly comments (yours), thus promoting the collective interaction of thought, surpassing e-readers and annotated books in individuality or participation limited to a very small community.

‍

It will no longer be the large publishing groups, sometimes influenced by economic objectives or intimate networks, that will determine the quality of a text. Now, this judgment will be exclusively yours.

‍

‍