Material Matters in Digital Representation
Tree of Codes as a Literature of Disembodiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275770 |
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| Authors | Lai-Tze Fan (0000-0001-7271-2160, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-53 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2018.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2791510782 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Materiality (auditing) · Political science · Representation (politics) · Tree (set theory) · Visual arts · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Digital Media and Philosophy · Mathematics · Media, Communication, and Education
| Highly cited | No |
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