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Chapter 2 - Platformatics

from Part I - The Hold of the Codex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2020

Garrett Stewart
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
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This chapter revolves around a retrospective tour of recent book arts expositions where the material vehicle – the physical platform – of codex objects gets appropriated, reworked, simulated, or digitally remade in various combinations of analytic and figurative rigor in the bibliobjet: first the “Odd Volumes” curation at Yale in 2014–15, then “The Internal Machine” show at the Center for Books Arts in Manhattan in 2017. Exhibits range from a pre-Kindle irony of electronically activated video “reading,” through books as sounding boards for acoustic synthesizers, to a sonnet anthology accessed only by an embedded microphone. In such exaggerated “platformatics,” repeatedly the interplay between sound and text is displaced from the normal subvocal enunciation of written script – as is more recently the case in a “volume” of spectrogram rather than script lines, transferred from digital audio, that goes out of its way to correlate the prehistory of binary computing with its vestigial codex form.

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Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age
, pp. 57 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Platformatics
  • Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa
  • Book: Book, Text, Medium
  • Online publication: 21 December 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9881108834599.003
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  • Platformatics
  • Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa
  • Book: Book, Text, Medium
  • Online publication: 21 December 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9881108834599.003
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  • Platformatics
  • Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa
  • Book: Book, Text, Medium
  • Online publication: 21 December 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9881108834599.003
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