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Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History /

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Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital space, and tr...

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Main Author: Eve, Martin Paul (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2024]
Series:Stanford Text Technologies
Subjects:
Computer science > Language.
Metaphor.
Technology > Language.
Text processing (Computer science)
Word processing.
Informatique > Langage.
Métaphore.
Technologie > Langage.
Traitement de texte.
metaphor.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
book history.
computing history.
digital humanities.
digital-material studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • One Theses on the Metaphors of Digital- Textual History
  • Two The Virtual Page Almost Never Existed
  • Three Digital Whitespace Is the Seriality of Musical Silence
  • Four Digital Text Is Geopolitically Structured
  • Five Digital Text Is Multidimensional
  • Six Windows Are Allegories of Political Liberalism
  • Seven Libraries Are Assemblages of Recombinable Anxiety Fragments
  • Eight Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost
  • Nine Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index