TY - JOUR
T1 - Material matters in digital representation : tree of codes as aliterature of disembodiment
AU - FAN, Lai-Tze
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - In a digital era of representation, where screen content is abstracted from material objects/apparatuses, how do we still associate “text” and “book” with materiality? This essay analyzes Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes as a “literature of disembodiment”—experimental print texts that represent objects from which materiality is erased.
AB - In a digital era of representation, where screen content is abstracted from material objects/apparatuses, how do we still associate “text” and “book” with materiality? This essay analyzes Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes as a “literature of disembodiment”—experimental print texts that represent objects from which materiality is erased.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045347611&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
VL - 51
SP - 37
EP - 53
JO - Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal
JF - Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal
IS - 1
ER -