BUT NOW SPACE WAS PART OF THE OBJECT¹ is an inquiry into whether or not a typeface can be absent in its own type specimen. Negative space becomes positive space secondary becomes primary reference becomes content. False protagonist Booq Alt delivers the performance of Booq-a typeface whose identity can only be imagined through the interplay of transcribed lectures from Booksfromthefuture Summer School 2015 and a pool of public domain images. A publication by Masaki Miwa and Ying Tong Tan published in parallel with The Multiple Lives of a Blank Book (Booksfromthefuture 2015).