Kari Kraus Questions

1. Do you think that book publishers that utilize/promote the implementation of the transmedia aesthetic to their literary works will help salvage the decline of said publisher’s physical book sales seeing that Generation Z has been born into a world where nowadays most text they read is derived digitally?

2. Do you agree with Carlea Holl-Jensen that in order to draw people back to reading physical books one must alter the presentation of the physical content-scape in order to make for a entirely new physical reading experience that can’t be appropriated into a digital format without losing the integrity of the presentation?

3. In Marx’s Capital Production, he speaks on how you can’t see the labor value of an object, meaning that you can’t see the work that the person who physically crafted the object put into it nor can you see the environment that the object was created in and thus you can’t relate a human/labor value with the object. With that stated, do you think that the processes that Cliffard Hichar utilizes in his book, The Pussycat Said to the Owl: Electronic Circuitry in an Altered Book, will be implemented on larger scale? I ask this because by giving the reader access to the backstory of the creation of the book through microcontrollers, which Hichar implants in his book, he is able to show the reader of his book what went into its creation, thus implanting renewed human/labor value into it that otherwise wouldn’t be there in a standard book format(88).

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