Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path (Q2164)
scholarly work by Terry Harpold
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path |
scholarly work by Terry Harpold |
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2009
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978-0-816-65102-3
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1131492182
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Every reading is, strictly speaking, unrepeatable; something in it, of it, will vary. Recollections of reading accumulate in relation to this iterable specificity; each takes its predecessors as its foundation, each inflects them with its backward-looking futurity. (English)
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Among the chief reasons why much of this book is devoted to systems and hypertexts of the first wave (and print texts and mechanical devices for reading them decades and centuries older than that) is that I do not think we understood them very well the first time or that we have discharged our responsibilities to them. (English)
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