Reading Platforms

D. Tenen
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Reflecting on the history and future of the book, the chapter imagines several possible alternatives to electronic texts as we know them today. The terms “platform” and “format” guide a speculative exploration through an archive of extant literary technologies—micrographic prints, Computexts, HyperCards, and ePUBs—and consideration of these distant materialities and their associated practices, interfaces, and affordances. The way in which a book’s spine or a reading chair realign the positions of the back, eye, and hand suggests another type of structuring when reading electronically, within environments made of polymer, rare metals, and liquid crystal. How does one mold the human senses to fit such alien media? The history of electronic books ultimately attests to the process of trans-mediation, contested at the boundary of hardware—paper or silicon—and software—body and code.
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这一章反映了这本书的历史和未来,想象了我们今天所知道的电子文本的几种可能的替代方案。术语“平台”和“格式”通过现存文学技术(缩微印刷、计算机文本、超级卡片和epub)的档案引导了一种思辨性的探索,并考虑了这些遥远的材料及其相关的实践、接口和支持。在聚合物、稀有金属和液晶制成的环境中,书籍的书脊或阅读椅重新调整背部、眼睛和手的位置的方式表明了电子阅读时的另一种结构。一个人如何塑造人类的感官来适应这种陌生的媒介?电子书的历史最终证明了跨中介的过程,在硬件(纸或硅)和软件(主体和代码)的边界上争论不休。
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