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Formal closure is a property the printed text exhibited, at different pre-modern moments, by the text as a complete and unified whole, bound in the format of the printed book.  The contemporary spread of the computer's digital text has opened texts to change and modification, which has profound consequences for the textual work as an aesthetic entity.  Comparisons with the digital text are instructive, as the digital text brings to light the deeply naturalized qualities of the printed book.
 
Formal closure is a property the printed text exhibited, at different pre-modern moments, by the text as a complete and unified whole, bound in the format of the printed book.  The contemporary spread of the computer's digital text has opened texts to change and modification, which has profound consequences for the textual work as an aesthetic entity.  Comparisons with the digital text are instructive, as the digital text brings to light the deeply naturalized qualities of the printed book.
  
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The semiotic marker of textual closure present in a folio of Shakespeare's works from the early 1600s.

Formal closure is a property the printed text exhibited, at different pre-modern moments, by the text as a complete and unified whole, bound in the format of the printed book. The contemporary spread of the computer's digital text has opened texts to change and modification, which has profound consequences for the textual work as an aesthetic entity. Comparisons with the digital text are instructive, as the digital text brings to light the deeply naturalized qualities of the printed book.



530: Roman Legal Administration

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Justinian I's "Corpus Juris Civilis" ("Body of Civil Law")

Cornelia Vismann

Work: Legal codex - Distinguish from scroll

Representative figure: Roman Emperor Justinian I

Emergent whole: writ and force of law

Figure: Father, murderer  'mother literature'

Dynamic: Implicit truth of codex-codified protocol


1800: German Bildungsroman

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Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"

Friedrich Kittler

Work: Bildungsroman novel - distinguish from law, which is literal?

Representative figure: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Emergent whole: unity of fiction novel

Figure: erotic, primal mother - and indulgent child

Serial medium: the book

Dynamic: Unity of subjective experience realized in imagination


2000: Computational Sociality

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Editing History of Wikipedia's "Evolution" article

N. Katherine Hayles

Work: Clustering dynamic texts

Representative figure: Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia

Emergent whole: Materiality of digital text - a heterogenous clustering unity?

Figure: Universal motherboard "of us all"

Dynamic: Computation as fluid, but with infinite memory




References

Barthes, Roland, [1971]. “From Work to Text,” from Hale, Dorothy (ed) The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900-2000. Wiley-Blackwell. Print.

Genette, Gerard. Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. 1997. Print.

Hayles, N. Katherine (2005) "My Mother Was A Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts." The University of Chicago Press: Chicago. Print.

Hesse, Carla (1996), "Books in Time," pp. 21-36. From Nunberg, Geoffrey (ed) The Future of the Book. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles. 1996. Print.

Kittler, Friedrich. (1990) Discourse Networks, 1800/1900. Stanford University Press: Stanford. Print.

Miah, Andy, (2003). “(e)Text: Error… 404 Not Found! Or The Disappearance of History,” Culture Machine, Vol. 5. Text available at: http://www.culturemachine.net.

Thompson, John B (1981). “Editor’s Introduction,” pp. 1-26. From Paul Ricoeur: Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Print.

Vismann, Cornelia. Files: Law and Media Technology. Stanford University Press: Stanford. 2008. Print.