text: The Future of the Book
  Geoffrey Nunberg, ed.
  (Re)placing the author: "A Book in the Ruins"
  On History, Print, and Electronic Texts
  "What's changed is not the thing but its placement. Print stays itself,
  electronic text replaces itself. Electronic text is as apt to evolve
  before it forms, as apt to dissolve before it finishes. On the screen it
  takes our constant and attentive interaction to maintain even the
  simulacrum of static text. The future, too, requires as much of us, and
  has for some time.... The future won't stay still but instead keeps on
  replacing itself. The page becomes the screen, the screen replaces the
  page. We could call this placement "history." Electronic texts present
  themselves in the medium of their dissolution: they are read where they
  are written, they are written where they are read. What "this could be,"
  the poet tells us, "you don't know yet" (273-74).
  On "Re(placing) the Author
  "Electronic text can never be completed; at best its closure maps point
  on point until time is linear and the text stays itself, becoming print.
  But when a point suddenly fails to map onto itself, the author is
  replaced. Replacement of the author turns performer to author. The world
  intended by the author is a place of encounter where we continually
  create the future as a dissipative structure: the chance of oriented
  insertion becomes the moment of structural instability, the interstitial
  link wherein we enact the replacement of one writing by another" (283-84).
  On Text and Virtual Reality
  "The interdeterminability of points of perception argues against a
  virtual reality which depends, as most do, upon successive disclosures
  of self-generating spaces. The last time I was in actual virtual
  reality, no sooner had I donned the helmet than I went running full
  speed for the edges of the representation, boundary testing, bursting
  through, blowing away the whole wire-frame world into a landscape of
  countless, brilliant ruby dice, each spinning letter or numeral a
  particle of the code, each an error exception.
  To be sure,
  before long there will be (there already are) virtual worlds which can
  contain us wherever we run. But they too will be a structure of words,
  everything we will see from now on is made of words: scene is seen, text
  is useless, thus its use" (288).
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distilabel_metadata.content: The Future of the Book
  Geoffrey Nunberg, ed.
  (Re)placing the author: "A Book in the Ruins"
  On History, Print, and Electronic Texts
  "What's changed is not the thing but its placement. Print stays itself,
  electronic text replaces itself. Electronic text is as apt to evolve
  before it forms, as apt to dissolve before it finishes. On the screen it
  takes our constant and attentive interaction to maintain even the
  simulacrum of static text. The future, too, requires as much of us, and
  has for some time.... The future won't stay still but instead keeps on
  replacing itself. The page becomes the screen, the screen replaces the
  page. We could call this placement "history." Electronic texts present
  themselves in the medium of their dissolution: they are read where they
  are written, they are written where they are read. What "this could be,"
  the poet tells us, "you don't know yet" (273-74).
  On "Re(placing) the Author
  "Electronic text can never be completed; at best its closure maps point
  on point until time is linear and the text stays itself, becoming print.
  But when a point suddenly fails to map onto itself, the author is
  replaced. Replacement of the author turns performer to author. The world
  intended by the author is a place of encounter where we continually
  create the future as a dissipative structure: the chance of oriented
  insertion becomes the moment of structural instability, the interstitial
  link wherein we enact the replacement of one writing by another" (283-84).
  On Text and Virtual Reality
  "The interdeterminability of points of perception argues against a
  virtual reality which depends, as most do, upon successive disclosures
  of self-generating spaces. The last time I was in actual virtual
  reality, no sooner had I donned the helmet than I went running full
  speed for the edges of the representation, boundary testing, bursting
  through, blowing away the whole wire-frame world into a landscape of
  countless, brilliant ruby dice, each spinning letter or numeral a
  particle of the code, each an error exception.
  To be sure,
  before long there will be (there already are) virtual worlds which can
  contain us wherever we run. But they too will be a structure of words,
  everything we will see from now on is made of words: scene is seen, text
  is useless, thus its use" (288).
  Return to Front Node /
  Book Table of Contents
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