Paper is flat, road kill; PC text is layered,
like a cake.Paper or Plastic?
Paper is flat, road kill; PC text is layered,
like a cake.
A text deferred, by layers of frosting of
technology and "dancing baloney." Words, wherefore art thou?
Paper = hierarchy, "The Man"; Plastic = network,
workers of the world unite (Unix).
A reader is the writer's enemy.
Type some text. See text typed. Type text, type.
This site is comprised of (of course, I mean "composed of"! ha-ha!) the following four pages, each of which comments in some allusive, elusive way on the nature of electronic text:
25 is twen*ty-sev*en; twen*ty-sev*en, 25
The Annotated 25 is twen*ty-sev*en; twen*ty-sev*en, 25
Mark "Collaborationist" Pressler wields a mean table at http://shrike.depaul.edu/~jpressle. Ted "The Human Fly" Villaire lands on your food at http://pw2.netcom.com/~tsv/new.html. http://shrike.depaul.edu/~ttomashp/bolter~1.html. The latest from my learned and indefatigable colleague. . .
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"The idea of the library is not change, but
preservation" (100); Bolter obviously hasn't been in many
libraries lately--card catalogs are disappearing, replaced by
computer terminals; librarians are now "information providers";
in some cases, print has fallen prey to the spatial, financial
exigencies of the new electronic age (as chronicled by Nicholson
Baker in a 1996 New Yorker article on the San Francisco Public
Library).When we surf the net, are we "looking at" (166)
the technology , the process, or "looking through" to the
content, the product? Electronic writing may not take itself seriously, as Bolter states, but the medium itself certainly does. Not only the PC itself but the diskette prides itself on reliability, long-life, accuracy, imperviousness to the elements or time. It's
not impervious, however, to hardware changes: Let us now praise famous 5 1/4 disks. Nor is it impervious to a reasonably sharp pocketknife. [This will make more sense when my applied project comes to light.]
Fred Donini-Lenhoff
735 Park Avenue
River Forest, IL 60305
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