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THE RECOMBINANT SENSIBILITY, which has come to full expression in modern literature with the maturing of electronic technologies, takes its materials, methods, and media across a threshold to where they become objects for contemplation in themselves. It's a skeptic's sensibility that finds knowledge in the combination of things, and prefers exploring connections among pre-existing materials to building a complete system or total structure. Its foundations might be traced to associationist epistemologies of the eighteenth century,' but its thorough-going embodiment in the technological life-world is new, and distinctively modern. Now that the scene of composition itself can be readily linked by computers and fiberoptic cables to textual material that is ongoing, citable in numerous media, and continuous with the real time of both writing and publication, interactivity becomes the norm, not the exception. The work's environment closes in and takes on a newly literal presence, ensuring that, whatever the book's future, it won't be in isolation from those texts that do not come printed and bound between covers

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  Marjorie A Cambre•The Journal of Higher Education•1992

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