MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies

Studying Media and Making Media

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Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-Generating Mechanisms

If we accept physically cutting paper or spinning a volvelle as a readerly and writerly act, then we must also erase the boundaries we have drawn between “the book” as a material form and “the digital” as an epistemology, reconsidering the various literacies each facilitates or forecloses.