Refresh the Book: On the Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing

This edition contains reflections on the multimodal nature of the book, focusing on its changing perception, functions, forms, and potential in the digital age. Offering an overview of key concepts and approaches, such as liberature, technotexts, and bookishness, this volume of essays adresses the specificity of the printed book as a complex cultural phenomenon. It discusses diverse forms of representation and expression, both in literary and non‑literary texts, as well as in artist's books. Of special interest are these aspects of the book wich resist remediation into the digital form. This volume also contains an extensive section devoted to artistic practice as research, discussing the book as the synthesis of the arts, and site for performative aesthetic activity.