Spectres of Paper: Writing, Digitization, and the End(s) of the Book
Authors:
- Tadeusz Rachwał
Abstract
This paper has been inspired by Jacques Derrida’s statement revealing that his philosophical writings were mostly devoted to paper. “I have the impression,” he said, “(the impression!—what a word, already) that I have never had any other subject basically, paper, paper, paper” (Derrida, 2005, p. 41). My paper addresses this thrice repeated noun as a name not so much of a material object on which we scribble, but as a space between the spirit and the letter, a space which turns out to be ineradicable even at the time of paper’s alleged eradication in the e-textual age, which may be called a fin de livre culture. This end of the book, I argue, is a highly provisional declaration of the beginning of a paperless era of digitized media, which are not quite capable of eradicating various traces and spectres of paper haunting their own theorizations.
- Record ID
- SWPSec14fc23399b493293a1dfcf69b9e5be
- Author
- Journal series
- Avant. Pismo Awangardy Filozoficzno-Naukowej, ISSN 2082-7598, e-ISSN 2082-6710
- Issue year
- 2017
- No
- 2
- Pages
- 31-38
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Keywords in English
- paper; writing; digital; analog; spectral
- ASJC Classification
- ; ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.26913/80202017.0112.0002 opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
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- File: 1
- T. Rachwał Spectres of Paper - ART.pdf
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- File: 2
- T. Rachwał Spectres of Paper - oswiadczenie.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 13
- Score source
- journalList
- Publication indicators
- : 2017 = 0.159
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- http://bw.swps.edu.pl/info/article/SWPSec14fc23399b493293a1dfcf69b9e5be/
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