Title: Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894
Author: Alessandro Ludovico, with an afterword by Florian Cramer
Publisher: Onomatopee, Eindhoven
Format: 192 pages, 9.2 x 1.5 x 25.2 cm, English
ISBN: 978-90-78454-87-8
In this post-digital age, digital technology is no longer a revolutionary phenomenon but a normal part of everyday life. The mutation of music and film into bits and bytes, downloads and streams is now taken for granted. For the world of book and magazine publishing however, this transformation has only just begun. Still, the vision of this transformation is far from new. For more than century now, avant-garde artists, activists and technologists have been anticipating the development of networked and electronic publishing. Although in hindsight the reports of the death of paper were greatly exaggerated, electronic publishing has now certainly become a reality. How will the analog and the digital coexist in the post-digital age of publishing? How will they transition, mix and cross over? In this book, Alessandro Ludovico re-reads the history of the avant-garde arts as a prehistory of cutting through the so-called dichotomy between paper and electronics.
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