We are happy to announce the fifth issue (and the first one in pink) of the Interface Critique journal: ‘Conversing the Book’, available as always as open access and as print on demand on www.interfacecritique.net.
This issue was edited by Lindsey Drury and Nina Tolksdorf as guest editors and Nada Ezzeldin as graphic designer, realized as usual in collaboration with arthistoricum.net (UB Heidelberg and SLUB Dresden) and this time generously supported by the Excellence Cluster “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at the Free University Berlin/Berlin University Alliance.
We are grateful for their commitment and especially for the wonderful contributions of all the authors involved.
The contributions of this issue widely explore how interfaces between bodies and texts have been digitally revolutionised, from the engagement of researchers with antique Arabic literature and Greek philosophy through manuscripts, to the engagement of impoverished people with public infrastructure through the information inscribed on food ration cards in contemporary India. They show how the digital transformation of text from analogue to digital formats conditions modes of access, thus transforming embodied experiences and – in turn – the form/content relation of the texts themselves. Drawing on interdisciplinary research they raise questions like how the materiality of the digital can be identified, how it mediates the relation to research objects, what forms of agency the interface has and in what way we need to reconsider the performativity of the digital when we conceive of it in material terms.
With contributions from:
Alexander Galloway, Beatrice Gruendler, François Dagognet (with a first time translation done by Nils F. Schott), Jan-Erik Stange, Johanna Drucker, Katherine Bode, Lindsey Drury, Mahmoud Kozae, Marian Dörk, Michael Krewet, Nina Tolksdorf, Philipp Hegel, Roberto Simanowski, and Silvia Masiero.
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arthistoricum.net, 2025
336 pages
ISBN 978-3-98501-406-4
ISSN 2570-0472
eISSN 2570-0480
DOI: 10.11588/ic.2025.1
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