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If we are to comprehend electronic literature through descriptive exploration, there are countless historical, cultural, social, and artistic repercussions that need more thorough extrapolation: for all the stellar scholarship that has been done in this field, much of the required excavation remains undone. But we also need to reemphasise foundational concepts, repeatedly interrogating the manner by which the screen transforms the ways we read and write. Flusser’s preconditions of writing point to a number of communicative practices which are of relevance to us, such as the need for a blank surface, a means by which to mark that surface, and a system for the construction of signs and language (Heckman and O’Sullivan 2018).
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O’Sullivan, J. (2019). Authorship and Reading in the Digital Age. In: Towards a Digital Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11310-0_3
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