New horizons for the book in the 21st century
This week our class has read Florian Cramer’s essay “Post-Digital Writing,” Alessandro Ludovico’s conclusion titled “Post-Digital Print: a Future Scenario” in Post-Digital Print, Peter Suber’s chapter “What is Open Access” as well as explored Giselle Bieguelman’s electronic work O Livro depois do Livro in order to learn about post-digitalist theories and open access politics. In his essay, Cramer discusses how literary writing in the age of the Internet has shifted 19th century notions of publishing and authorship and the simultaneous transformation of the codex into a valued vintage product in the 21st century. Ludovico affirms this in stating that current traditional print publishing is “presenting its products as valuable objects and collector’s items, by exploiting the physical and tactile qualities of the paper” (154). Ludovico also hypothesizes that in the future, hybrid forms of writing that combine print and digital qualities have yet to arise. As our class has seen earlier in...
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