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

🕮 -- Dennis Tenen, Plain Text - The Poetics of Computation 
      https://monoskop.org/media/text/tenen_2017_plain_text/


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