I am not sure if this is pertinent to the discussion but twenty years ago
when I started putting my texts on computer using the available editors I
dropped the 'open field' approach with lots of spaces and returned to
leftjustified text which I have continued ever since till I stopped writing.
Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "ian davidson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Birkbeck conference
> 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]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >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
> >
> >Home page
> >http://www.alisoncroggon.com
> >
> >Blog
> >http://alisoncroggon.blogspot.com
>
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