On moving and being moved : the corporeality of writing in literary fiction and new media art

In this paper, we argue that there is a need to think of continuity between typographic and electronic forms based on what Mark Hansen has described as the body's capacity to articulate with technology (2004). He argues that what gives literature its privilege is not so much its capacity to reproduce or represent the flexibility of other media, but its relationship with the body-to mimic its individuated rhythms and forms of socialized being, its capacity to bring into being imagined realities, in other words to produce what he calls "reality affects" (599).