Journal article
Bookwork as Demediation
Critical inquiry, Vol.36(3), pp.410-457
03/01/2010
DOI: 10.1086/653407
Abstract
Stewart examines bookwork. In the normal course and discourse of literate experience, books are in the world as well as in it, populating it while repeating it by representation. And often, it would seem, they carve out counterworlds of their own, valved enclaves of worded text. Unreadable books are merely things in the given world, all description of it or its alternatives imploded or swept away, at least for a bracketing conceptual moment before they have claimed their place as texts again, gallery objects, art messages--often synecdoches at least, elsewhere manifold conceits, puns, rebuses. In that conceptual before, that transitional and purely materialist moment, that almost palpable suspension of reference, the no longer vehicular thing--the suddenly isolated hi bliobjet--does its real and demediating work.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Bookwork as Demediation
- Creators
- Garrett Stewart
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Critical inquiry, Vol.36(3), pp.410-457
- Publisher
- University of Chicago, acting through its Press
- DOI
- 10.1086/653407
- ISSN
- 0093-1896
- eISSN
- 1539-7858
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984397930402771
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