I wrote a paper… a first draft, anyway, in part prompted by this post on Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Web log (and also the discussion that prompted Matt’s post). The paper’s called Three Short Case Studies on Materiality in New Media and can be found here. I’d like to flesh it out more over the summer, and would love feedback! (As long as it’s, you know. Constructive.)
I guess, if I were to write a one-thought synopsis of what I’m trying to get at, it would be: materiality, by whatever name, does matter in new media. Considered on a case-by-electronic-case basis, it can be revealing of our (humans’? Western humans’?) interaction with language and art in general.
