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*Plain Text tells a story of a major morphological shift affecting cultural production,
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particularly as it relates to the mechanics of reading and writing.
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Were I to interrupt
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a digital typist to ask, “Where do these words reside?” I would likely receive several
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conflicting answers in response. In some sense, the words are on-screen, where they
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can be viewed. In another sense, they are somewhere within the machine, on remote and
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hermeneutically sealed surfaces: silicon chips, hard drives, flash memory cards. In yet
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another sense, visible signs are still further removed from the contexts of their
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production.
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The word is in the wires. It spreads across servers, routers, and data
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centers. What was once apparent takes on a more complex structure, stretched across
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planes and temporalities.
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The book—this book, any book—gains a new shape.
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Digital texts
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form a live lattice, a multidimensional grid, that connects a letter’s tactile response
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at one’s fingertips to its optic and electromagnetic traces.*
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🕮 -- Dennis Tenen, Plain Text - The Poetics of Computation
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https://monoskop.org/media/text/tenen_2017_plain_text/
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