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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s book From Information Theory to French Theory is forthcoming from Duke University Press. His other writings on screens and imagery include the essay “The Bitmap is the Territory,” forthcoming in the journal MLN, and his recent essay “Screen,” coauthored with Francesco Casetti and published in Information, ed. Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel (Columbia Universty Press, 2021).
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Can one reduce the digital to an analog apparatus? Of course. There are endless clumsy ways to reduce mind to body and body to mind. I am contesting whether we ought to make such a reduction. And if we ought not, then historicism and empiricism shouldn’t be primary methods in digital studies. Anathema, I know, but that’s why it’s important to scrutinize methodology.