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chapter 2

Material metaphors, Technotexts and Media-Specific Analysis

  • "metaphor" from root meaning "bearing across" (transfer of sense between two associated)
  • Hayles coins "Material Metaphor" foregrounds relation/ back and forth between words and physical artifacts
    • take the book for example, so obvious we barely recognize it:
      • page defines a unit of reading
      • binding pages indicates, fixates order of reading
      • opacity of paper defining if page appears linear, sequencial or interpenetrating and simultaneous
  • "inscription technologies" is device that initiate material changes that can be read as marks
    • in print books: words are ink marks left on paper
    • in computer text: computer changes electric polarities and correlates these changes with binary code