Hi Ian
On 13/5/04 9:39 PM, "ian davidson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> doesn't the technology (from the book to the digital environment) transmit
> language between bodies - from the writer to the reader - however broadly
> acts of writing and reading are defined? The technology will, of course,
> change processes of writing and reading; in other words a text produced in
> a digital environment might have features impossible to replicate in a book
> based text, but the process of the movement of the text from the bodily
> presence of the writer to its re-embodiment in the reader would seem to be
> broadly similar. Or, as usual, am I missing something.
That's how I would read it...and I was wondering if Cayley was suggesting
some impossibly unmediated channelling of language (via the media of
technology) or something else. But I'm sure I'm missing something too...I'm
wondering what "utter language" is, it's curiously attractive.
Best
A
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