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.
Ian
>From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Birkbeck conference
>Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 21:16:43 +1000
>
>Dear Elizabeth
>
>Sounds like you needed those plain chocolate digestives. Thanks so much
>for
>that report; it makes me wish I had been there. I especially like the idea
>of poetry as stubbornly persisting dialect, although here it might make
>more
>sense to think of poetry as vernacular, since dialect barely exists. And
>did Cayley's "materiality of language" have anything to do with embodiment,
>ie, is "utter language" a thing of dis-embodiment, or purer embodiment? I
>find it extremely difficult (a personal limitation, I don't doubt) to
>abstract language, even written language, from the body, I am wondering if
>the technology heads back or away from the body. Not sure about the
>reconfiguring of time: as films can, or even static visual arts? But then,
>that assertion depends on what you mean by time.
>
>In terms of the reader/writer/intention question, might it be fruitful to
>think of a work as something which provides a structured opportunity to
>imagine/create meaning?
>
>Best
>
>A
>
>Alison Croggon
>
>Editor, Masthead
>http://www.masthead.net.au
>
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