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A brief introduction to theories of textuality. Why text is never just “information,” even when it’s a CSV or TXT file. Can data be said to have an “author” in the textual sense, even if that data has been unconsciously or unwittingly produced?

Before Class 📚 Read:  Treharne and Willan, Text Technologies: A History, Part I: Conceptual Framework, pp. 1–33 Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text” (1971)  ❀

Practicum Learn to text in T9.