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Textual Material in the Digital Medium
Textual Material in the Digital Medium
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.03.2011 - 14:31
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Is There a Message in the Medium? The Materiality of Language
The initial argument of this essay is absurdly simple, obvious, literal: language must be embodied and thus its particular medium is—literally, ontologically—the matter, the flesh, the materiality of any message that it articulates. Marshall McLuhan urged us to recognize that media signify, that the matter in which the message is embodied also traces differences that were already what we have come to call ‘writing’ in a poststructuralist, Derridean sense: grammatological practices. However, McLuhan’s copula was not ontological. It expressed a concern that these other, parallel messages were more significant than any linguistic message they embodied. This same anxiety has reached a kind of apotheosis in recent criticism of digital literature—from Christopher Funkhouser and Roberto Simanowski—revenant as no less than our ancient fear of cannibalism. The message of the medium literally consumes the materiality of language: its own body, flesh of its flesh. But this cannibalism would only be literal—and thus taboo, thus truly terrifying—if McLuhan’s copula were ontological.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.08.2011 - 12:34
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Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality
Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.02.2012 - 11:56
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Post-Chapter Dialogue, Simanowski and Ricardo
Post-Chapter Dialogue, Simanowski and Ricardo
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.06.2012 - 11:33
