Content tagged "media archaeology"

Posted by Whitney Trettien S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2009
Topics: ars combinatoria, books, combinatory practices, media, media archaeology, Roger Chartier, volvelles

Computers, 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.