Deleafìng : The History and Future of Losing Print
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.21, 2013, pages 13-25
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This article explores the passages, both material and temporal, of a single, hybrid nineteenth-century book, Goethe s Swiss Journey, in order to argue for a new way of thinking about digitization and its role in contemporary culture. In place of seeing digitization exclusively under the sign of preservation (or its failure), Goethe's work can help us see how important loss and transformation are to the process of mediation. Rather than emphasize principles of fidelity, completeness, or stability—captured above all in the dominance of the "page view"—the Swiss Journey has much to tell us about imagining a world of digital reproduction defined by the passaginal and the transactional, by an experience which one moves through.
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