play of code is not alwaysinfinitely fungible and arbitrary-transformations are not always reversible, nor are all transformations always possible or achievable.

database project, with a research agenda defined by the

writing and reading to and from the disk are ultimately a form of digital to analog or analog to digital signal processing-not unlike the function of a modem-and that the data contained on the disk is a second-order representation of the actual digital values the data assumes for computation.

all media remain part of a social, political, and economic landscape whose shifting contours resist any attempts at erosion through the mere rhetorical invocation of homogenous ones and zeroes.

There is, in short, no simple way to know how many instances of a single file are residing in how many states, in how many different locations, at any given moment in the operating system.

deeply humanistic way of knowing, one that assigns value to time, history, and social or material circumstance-even trauma and wear-as part of our thinking about new media.

the book has become a black box, and whatever is inscribed within its pages is destined for other than human eyes.

process of siting an inscription in an allographic modality, such that it becomes available for

magnetic inscription is a temporal as well as a planographic intervention,