Post-digital

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Typewriters are not the only media which have recently been resurrected as literally post-digital devices: other examples include vinyl records, and more recently also audio cassettes, as well as analog photog-raphy and artists’ printmaking. And if one examines the work of contemporary young artists and designers, including art school students, it is obvious that these ‘old’ media are vastly more popular than, say, making imageboard memes.

Source: Florian Cramer's What is Post-digital article (2014, APRJA)

Cramer frames the discussion noting "Post-digital: a term that sucks but is useful."

  1. Disenchantment with the 'digital'