{"product_id":"binding-media-hybrid-print-digital-literature-from-across-the-americas-hardback-9781503641785","title":"Binding Media; Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from Across the Americas (Hardback) 9781503641785","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBinding Media\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHybrid Print-Digital Literature from Across the Americas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eÉlika Ortega (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503641785\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages, 2 figures, 25 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBinding Media\u003c\/i\u003e bursts a number of convenient critical seams: media essentialisms, the textual and the tactile, and the still-too-typical overreliance on monolingual literatures. This close and careful study will be appreciated by all who read our increasingly diverse and hybrid archive.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland \"This book's heterogeneous, Hemispheric, multilingual corpus explores a new ecology of reading between print and digital formats. Ortega's 'media poetics' elegantly sidesteps the binaries of material versus electronic, stable versus ephemeral, embracing the friction of collaborative modes of production and consumption.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar from causing the \"death of the book,\" the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation. In this fascinating new work, Élika Ortega proposes the notion of \"binding media\" — a practice where authors and publishers \"fasten together\" a codex and electronic or digital media to create literary works in the form of hybrid print-digital objects. Examining more than a hundred literary works from across the Americas, Ortega argues that binding media are not simply experimentations but a unique contemporary form of the book that effectively challenges conventional regional and linguistic boundaries. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that binding media have remained marginal in the publishing industry due to technological imperatives like planned obsolescence and commercial ones like replicability and standardization that run counter to these bespoke literary projects. Although many binding media and other hybrid publishing initiatives have perished, they've left behind a wealth of material; collecting and tracing the residues of these foreshortened projects, Ortega builds a fascinating history of hybrid publishing. Ultimately, this essential account of contemporary book history highlights the way binding media help illuminate processes of cultural hybridization that have been instigated by the expediency of globalized digital technologies and transnational dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Binding Media: Negotiating (Un)Boundedness\u003cbr\u003e  2. From the Digital Revolution in Publishing to a Material History of Hybrid Books\u003cbr\u003e  3. Divergent Temporalities in Binding Media\u003cbr\u003e  4. Media Hybridity and Cultural Hybridity\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: From Computer-Generated Books to NFT Publishing\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix: Binding Media Corpus\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610723217688,"sku":"9781503641785","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/binding-media-hybrid-print-digital-literature-from-across-the-americas-hardback-9781503641785","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}