Looking for the spaceless book, an E-publishing archaeology
Looking for the spaceless book, an E-publishing archaeology
In the reformulation of the ‘publication’ concept after the electric and then electronic revolution, there is a consequent reformulation of the ‘space of publication’ which finally transcends the page and the binding as the insurmountable limits. Here the history of this process is tracked through the first optical attempts to compress the content in order to overcome those limits, conceptually preparing for a more radical technological shift. Foreseen in early science fiction visions, this shift determined by digital and the networked technologies, is dramatically collapsing the publication space towards a dimension close to the infinite, where the published object disappears in the reading machine, in what becomes a mere but sophisticated ‘container’.
Book culture, Digital publishing, E-Book, E-Literature, E-Publishing, E-Reader, Electronic Literature, Electronic publishing, Media archaeology, Post-Digital, Publishing, Science fiction
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Ludovico, Alessandro
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18 December 2018
Ludovico, Alessandro
3b5897e7-0cfa-4325-a36b-19df819e581f
Ludovico, Alessandro
(2018)
Looking for the spaceless book, an E-publishing archaeology.
Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 10 (3 Special Issue), .
(doi:10.7559/citarj.v10i3.570).
Abstract
In the reformulation of the ‘publication’ concept after the electric and then electronic revolution, there is a consequent reformulation of the ‘space of publication’ which finally transcends the page and the binding as the insurmountable limits. Here the history of this process is tracked through the first optical attempts to compress the content in order to overcome those limits, conceptually preparing for a more radical technological shift. Foreseen in early science fiction visions, this shift determined by digital and the networked technologies, is dramatically collapsing the publication space towards a dimension close to the infinite, where the published object disappears in the reading machine, in what becomes a mere but sophisticated ‘container’.
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Published date: 18 December 2018
Keywords:
Book culture, Digital publishing, E-Book, E-Literature, E-Publishing, E-Reader, Electronic Literature, Electronic publishing, Media archaeology, Post-Digital, Publishing, Science fiction
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Local EPrints ID: 434662
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/434662
ISSN: 1646-9798
PURE UUID: 973a69c2-327f-4924-9dde-7c67f9ddc351
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