Lossyness: Material Loss in the Cloud or Digital Ekphrasis.
The article reports on digital ekphrasis as an important tool to theorize the materiality and corporality of transcoding in the literary field. Topics discussed include a literary project that resides at the margins of textual materiality; Krissy Wilson's Tumblr "The Art of Google Books" that recont...
| Publicado en: | Revista Hispánica Moderna (0034-9593) Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 87 - 103 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Jun2018
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| Sumario: | The article reports on digital ekphrasis as an important tool to theorize the materiality and corporality of transcoding in the literary field. Topics discussed include a literary project that resides at the margins of textual materiality; Krissy Wilson's Tumblr "The Art of Google Books" that recontextualizes the images created during Google’s book digitization project as photographic objects to create an online exhibition of failed digitization; and opinion that Wilson’s project shows the material hand behind the process of digitization. |
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