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1. Through the Touching Glass: Literature for Haptic Inter[(surf)aces]

   Leaps and take-offs

   The blue sky above us is the optical layer of the atmosphere, the great lens of the terrestrial globe, its brilliant retina.
   From ultra-marine, beyond the sea, to ultra-sky, the horizon divides opacity from transparency. It is just one small step from earth-matter to space-light – a leap or a take-off able to free us for a moment from gravity.

   Paul Virilio, Open Sky

   Diogo Marques - 26.07.2017 - 13:58

2. Grasp All, Lose All: Loss of Grasp and Non-Functional Digital Interfaces in Electronic Literature

   “And one should understand tact, not in the common sense of the tactile, but in the sense of knowing how to touch without touching, without touching too much, where touching is already too much.” Jacques Derrida

   A “hasty conclusion”, perhaps, as stated by Derrida, yet, one that was (and still is) able to cause an intense discussion among philosophers. In his questioning of touch, Derrida draws on Jean Luc Nancy’s philosophy of touch, particularly on the latter’s paradox of intangible tangibility, as a way to explore a slightly different meaning of the verb haptein (to be able to touch, to grab, to attach, to fasten), but also meaning “to hold back, to stop” (Nancy [2003]: 2008, 15).

   Diogo Marques - 26.07.2017 - 15:56