Stanford Text Technologies
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Stanford Text Technologies

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Stanford Text Technologies

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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 traces their history as they interact with physical cultures. Eve posits that digital-textual metaphors move through three life phases. Initially they are descriptive. Then they encounter a moment of fracture or rupture. Finally, they go on to have a prescriptive life of their own that conditions future possibilities for our text environments—even when the metaphors have become untethered from their original intent. Why is "whitespace" white? Was the digital page always a foregone conclusion? Over a series of theses, Eve addresses these and other questions in order to understand the moments when digital-textual metaphors break and to show us how it is that our textual softwares become locked into paradigms that no longer make sense.

Contributing to book history, literary studies, new media studies, and material textual studies, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History provides generative insights into the metaphors that define our digital worlds.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781503639393
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. One. Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History
  8. Two. The Virtual Page Almost Never Existed
  9. Three. Digital Whitespace Is the Seriality of Musical Silence
  10. Four. Digital Text Is Geopolitically Structured
  11. Five. Digital Text Is Multidimensional
  12. Six. Windows Are Allegories of Political Liberalism
  13. Seven. Libraries Are Assemblages of Recombinable Anxiety Fragments
  14. Eight. Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost
  15. Nine. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Works Cited
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover