The term 'text technologies' is a useful label for the history of the form and content of human communication. The field emerges from what has been traditionally known as the 'History of the Book' or the 'History of Writing', neither of…
According to Jerome McGann, a text is an 'embodied phenomenon', presumably fleshed out with meaning and relevant in its context. It's what we might think of as incarnate, in the sense that without intentionality, text is meaningless; without some…