Content tagged "media archaeology"
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Posted by Whitney Trettien S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2009
Topics: ars combinatoria, books, combinatory practices, media, media archaeology, Roger Chartier, volvellesComputers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-Generating Mechanisms
If we accept physically cutting paper or spinning a volvelle as a readerly and writerly act, then we must also erase the boundaries we have drawn between “the book” as a material form and “the digital” as an epistemology, reconsidering the various literacies each facilitates or forecloses.