Not Absolutely Dead Things : Print, Code, and the Continuing Life of Books
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While the death of print has often been predicted as an inevitable consequence of the “digital turn,” it is safe to say that the bound, printed codex will not be disappearing from our library stacks anytime in the immediate future. What is true, however, is that the digital edition, with its deceptively “virtual” presence, has generally reinforced the conception that texts are best understood as “disembodied” meanings, as pure and ideal information or data independent of material form. It is a view that has alienated books from their own history, and by extension, from the human agency that created them. |
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