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1. There is No Software

   There is No Software

   Scott Rettberg - 22.08.2014 - 10:46

2. ebr version 1.0: Winter 1995/96

   To introduce an electronic
   book
   review, in the very medium that is reducing book technology to a
   museum piece, is to confront some of the more persistent cultural
   contradictions of the past few decades. This is the late age of print
   we’re in, when all the books worth saving are being scanned into digital
   archives, and the very conception of the book as a fixed object is
   giving way to the hyperreality of letters floating on a screen. For
   those writers who are committed to working in the new electronic
   environments, such a “review” might better be named a “retrospective,” a
   mere scholarly commemoration of a phenomenon that is passing. “The death
   of books” has spawned a rather lively academic discourse of its own,
   following in the wake of post-history, post-structuralism,
   post-feminism, and the various postmodernisms that have worked to
   undercut the authority of original authorship. The argument has been
   made that technological change represents a happy “convergence” with
   developments in literary theory; yet new technologies and media of

   Ole Samdal - 24.10.2017 - 15:57