anovelthatrelishesaprintfetishwhilerevealinghowliteratureanditsreadersencounterandevolveinrelationtodigitalmedia.

Produced by inscription technologies, technotexts construct their materialities so as to foreground the inscription technologies that produce them

but filled with light blue color

To develop this point as vividly as possible, I will enter the hermeneutic circle by considering first nonverbal marks, working out from there to their interplay with words and the resulting active construction of the book's materiality.

My face has been splattered with purple, as have my arms, granting contrast, and thus defining me, marking me, and at least for the moment, preserving me

The unreliable narrator, a literary invention foregrounding the role of consciousness in constructing reality, has here given way to the remediated narrator, a literary invention foregrounding a proliferation of inscription technologies that evacuate consciousness as the source of production and recover in its place a mediated subjectivity that cannot be conceived as an independent entity

second, it recuperates the vitality of the novel as a genre by recovering, through the processes of remediation, subjectivities coherent enough to become the foci of the sustained narration that remains the hallmark of the print novel

First, it extends the claims of the print book by showing what print can be in a digital age

Twilight burnings

Davinci Code was also burned earlier in the year

book burnings involving the Harry Potter franchise

But, what some people don’t know is that Farenheight 451 is based on a story called “The Fireman,” which in turn was based on a story named “Bright Phoenix.” “Bright Phoenix” was actually written in 1947, aligning the timing of the story with the early comic book burnings (and the now infamous Nazi book burnings in World War II).  And while it is a known fact that the title of the book refers to the temperature at which paper burns, I’ll bet it took a considerably lower ignition point to destroy the low quality paper used in comics in the forties.

Bible

the press of the New World

Cadmus

“O, my books, my books, my precious printed books!” reiterated the forlorn bookworm. “My only reality was a bound volume; and now they will not leave me even a shadowy pamphlet!”

so that I shall content myself with observing that it was not invariably the writer most frequent in the public mouth that made the most splendid appearance in the bonfire

how indefinite was the proportion between the physical mass of any given author and the property of brilliant and long-continued combustion

English standard authors

weight of dead men’s thought

who had dared to assume the privileges due only to Heaven’s better workmanship

"Mosses From An Old Manse"

Cadmus was credited by the ancient Greeks (Herodotus[4] is an example) with introducing the original alphabet to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet.