Gloss on Ebooks, Libraries, and Feelies
Marie-Laure Ryan
February 14, 2010
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What would the “general data file” contain? Would it be something like an ASCII file that contains just the words and that can be searched? What about texts with images: would they need two types of data files ? But since images cannot be searched, the image file would not be very useful.
Gloss on Ebooks, Libraries, and Feelies
Marie-Laure Ryan
February 14, 2010
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While the distinction between accumulative and modular library became clear to me as I read the text, I think its characterization here is rather confusing. “Accumulative” is defined as “emphasizing the interdependence of component elements.” This suggest the idea of a system. But it becomes clear later that accumulative libraries are more like unstructured lists than like systems. As for modular libraries, they can be added to, so they do have an accumulative capability. It seems to me that the distinction boils down to encoding: in accumulative libraries objects are collected as they are; in… continue
Gloss on Ebooks, Libraries, and Feelies
Marie-Laure Ryan
February 14, 2010
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Of the three examples of library objects mentioned here, only functions really qualify. Commands and types of data objects are not part of the library of a programming language, they are constitutive of the language itself. (Except for commands like “read” and “write”, which do call procedures that belong to the library). As for functions, some are original to the program, others are part of the library.
Gloss on Ebooks, Libraries, and Feelies
Lori Emerson
February 8, 2010
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However, on the other hand, the fact that readers depend on multiple interfaces for reading the same text points, I think, to the ways in which the reading interface is actually of utmost importance.
Gloss on R. M. Berry’s Riposte to Brian Lennon and Loren Glass
Andrew Burchiel
February 6, 2010
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A long time contributor to ebr, R. M. Berry has previously explored the role of the Avant-Garde in literature, which can be read here: The Avant-Garde and the Question of Literature, and his informative exchange with Joseph Tabbi in the wake of Tabbi’s review of Berry’s novel Frank can be read here: Blank Frank. A long time contributor to ebr, R. M. Berry has previously explored the role of the Avant-Garde in literature, which can be read here: The Avant-Garde and the Question of Literature, and his informative exchange with Joseph Tabbi in the wake of Tabbi’s review of Berry’s novel Frank can… continue
Gloss on Ping Poetics
Andrew Burchiel
October 8, 2009
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A zombie computer (often shortened as zombie) is a computer attached to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker, a computer virus, or a trojan horse. Generally, a compromised machine is only one of many in a botnet, and will be used to perform malicious tasks of one sort or another under remote direction. Most owners of zombie computers are unaware that their system is being used in this way. Because the owner tends to be unaware, these computers are metaphorically compared to zombies. A zombie computer (often shortened as zombie) is a computer attached to the Internet that has been… continue
Gloss on Ping Poetics
Andrew Burchiel
October 8, 2009
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Baldwin’s essay on Digital Poetics was also recently published on ebr and can be viewed here: Against Digital Poetics. Baldwin’s essay on Digital Poetics was also recently published on ebr and can be viewed here: Against Digital Poetics.
Gloss on Strange Sympathies: Horizons of Media Theory in America and Germany
Aron Pease
September 15, 2009
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There is a convergence here. In the last half-century, media and media machines have increasingly become the means of production. Hardt and Negri (among others) have argued that immaterial or communicative labor is the new dominant form of labor (dominant in terms of tendency not number), and this labor primarily produces knowledge, images, and affects. For instance, communicative laborers involved in bringing a pair of athletic shoes to market, do this using computers, specialized languages, images, and other media in order to produce media that make up the product “shoes.” As a commodity, “s… continue
Gloss on Gaming the System
September 6, 2009
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See Golumbia’s “Metadiversity: On the Unavailability of Alternatives to Information”. See Golumbia’s “Metadiversity: On the Unavailability of Alternatives to Information”.
Gloss on Against Digital Poetics
Andrew Burchiel
August 25, 2009
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John Cayley presents a substantial critique of Baldwin based on this essay’s initial presentation at conferences. Cayley’s critique is posed in a response to Joseph Tabbi’s essay “On Reading 300 Works of Electronic Literature.”