Materiality

“materiality [is] a dynamic quality that emerges from the interplay between the text as a physical artifact, its conceptual content, and the interpretive activities of readers and writers” Nancy Katherine Hayles, "Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis", Poetics Today 25:1 (2004) This semester, the Digital Humanities lecture series started with a presentation by Dr. Elena Spadini from the Universities of Bern and Basel about the role of materiality in scholarl...