“a void rubbing out its own inscription”: Electronic Technology, Hypertext and the Paradox of Self-Erasure
The advent of electronic technologies like the computer and the internet necessitated new ways of writing and thinking about writing. Where the age of mechanical and industrial technologies led to Blake’s visionary engravings and Swift imagining a random text generator in Gulliver's Travels, “f...
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University of Edinburgh
2009-06-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/619 |