Reading in the Age of Compression
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375688 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lutz Koepnick (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193-206 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-8883206 |
| OpenAlex | W3169817575 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Compression is often considered a royal road to process data in ever-shorter time and to cater to our desire to outspeed the accelerating transmission of information in the digital age. This article explores how different techniques of accelerated text dissemination and reading, such as consonant writing, speed-reading apps, and the PDF file format, borrow from the language of compression yet, precisely in so doing, obscure the constitutive multilayered temporality of reading and the embodied role of the reader. While discussing different methods aspiring to compress textual objects and processes of reading, the author illuminates hidden assumptions that accompany the rhetoric of text compression and compressed reading
Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Rhetoric · Temporality · Computer Science · Copyright and Intellectual Property · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Library Collection Development and Digital Resources · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |