Warner: "In the eighteenth century, [...] the imaginary reference point of the public was construed through an understanding of print" (162)
"a style of thinking about print": "it was possible to consume printed goods with an awareness that the same printed goods were being consumed by an indefinite number of others"
the eighteenth-century "language of republicanism" considered "print contexts [to be] a structuring metalanguage" (163)
"we now consider it simply definitional to speak of printing as 'publication'"