". The exchange value of the material, between persons at the library desk,
or between friends and intellectuals, students and teachers, is
irreplaceable and may even suggest a political interstice overlooked in the
quest for and living online that we all do"...
The cybernetic publications indeed represent a new state where the atoms
(bits of data) act in symbiotic harmony, demonstrating the characteristic of
ignoring gravity and friction. For example in (Bose- Einstein condensate) ,
gas will become fluid, and will climb up the sides of the glass it is in,
unlike the behavior of isolated atoms that constituted the gas at a higher
temperature, and moved in a chaotic manner (Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo.(2002).
Linked the New Science of Networks), similar to the image in Barthes' (La
Mort de l'auteur (1968) "multi-dimensional space in which a variety of
writings, none of them original, blend and clash". The condensation ability
of the Super-Rreader -Author(SRA) using search machines and digital gadgets,
allows turning the text in cyberspace into a the super -atom, that can be
identified and followed; the hypertext and SRA then embodies "God and his
hypostases reason, science, law.").
(from: " The Return of the Author"
http://art-science.univ-paris1.fr/document.php?id=105&format=print)
Avi.
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From: yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr
[mailto:yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr] On Behalf Of molly
Hankwitz
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:15 AM
To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] next step publishing
Well, I will now jump in to this discussion briefly. Regarding both
questions.
The idea of new publishing forms emerging as a result of Salvatore's
outstanding encapsulation of the complex socio-spatial reality in which the
21st c. begins is a thought provoking one. Indeed, the role and form of
books? What will it/they become? But, I would also like to suggest the
cracks. That material publishing, despite paper, CD plastic, and other
physical property may also be taking on a new social shape when interwoven
networks of electronic publishing are theorized and explored. The exchange
value of the material, between persons at the library desk, or between
friends and intellectuals, students and teachers, is irreplaceable and may
even suggest a political interstice overlooked in the quest for and living
online that we all do.
I think a revisiting of spaces in which exchange of publications takes place
and the parameters of participation is in order. But, as for literacy, it
seems to me that here we have the same set of questions that plagued
platforms in the mid nineties - like who had what and who knew what - as
well as the interminable "access" issue which isn't going away just because
we can see mobile devices more frequently now that they are publically toted
around. I realize I'm not talking about database and narrative, but I am
talking about levels of access, bandwidth speed, design of cities, types of
literature and news to be designed for the information rich and information
poor? and it does not simply follow that if scientists and artists push for
elegantly creative technological "plays" that technology will follow and
some democratic utopia will come on their heels...
:-) molly h.
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