Hi all,
At 02:41 AM 30/06/2004, you wrote:
I find both positions (James Cummings, Martin Holmes) very close to each other and to my own point of view. Would you agree if I describe them as some sort of modern textual materialism, where the 'text' always is something which is 'medialised' - which is an (digital) document rather than an abstract idea? And on the other hand we would have 'data' containing all the representational (and interpretative) information we have about a 'text' - I would call this a 'transmedial' text. As I would call the new media revolution a process of 'transmedialisation'.
I like this terminology. I think also there will be situations where one person's markup, which they considered to be objective and transparent, in the future becomes a text which is the subject of someone else's markup. We could envisage a time when early markup projects become the subject of scholarly investigation, and both their source markup and their various textual renderings (medialisations?) are themselves marked up. Re-reading my own comment "The markup merely strives after completeness and transparency", I guess that's a pretty big "merely".
Cheers, Martin
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