{"id":146,"date":"2004-01-04T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T17:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=146"},"modified":"2004-01-04T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2004-01-04T17:28:19","slug":"hayles-the-humument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Hayle(s) The Humument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Hayles dedicates a chapter of Writing Machines to Tom Phillips&#8217; original treated art book <a title=\"Tom Phillips and a Humument\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rosacordis.com\/humument\/index2.html\">A Humument<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Humument began as A Human Document a forgotten novel that itself purports to be an edited version of the journals and scapbook of lovers. Phillips paints over the pages letting rivers of text flow through to produce a new material work of art and literature. Hayles uses Humument to bring forth the materiality of textuality &#8211; a materiality that helps us understand problems for electronic literature. There is always a technology of inscription, even when we forget it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;The implication for studies of technology and literature is tha tthe materiality of inscription thoroughly interpenetrates the represented world. Even when technology does not appear as a theme, it is woven into the fictional world throught the processes that produce the literary work as a material artifact.&#8221; (Hayles p. 130)<\/p>\n<p>Hayles&#8217; book is similarly heavily designed. It is a collaboration with the designer Anne Burdick that is not always successful. I suspect the designer was constrained by the publisher into something too busy and too cute.<\/p>\n<p>See the associated web site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/mediawork\/\">Mediawork Pamphlet Series<\/a>. In particular see the Web Take by Eric Loyer. Some cool flash animation.<\/p>\n<p><b>N. Katherine Hayles<\/b> Writing Machines Cambridge, MA: Mediawork, MIT Press, 2002. <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/mediawork\">http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/mediawork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Hayles dedicates a chapter of Writing Machines to Tom Phillips&#8217; original treated art book A Humument. Humument began as A Human Document a forgotten novel that itself purports to be an edited version of the journals and scapbook of lovers. Phillips paints over the pages letting rivers of text flow through to produce a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hayle(s) The Humument<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-and-interactive-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}