History for Codework, Metaphoricity, Technotexts [sandy baldwin]

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-In all this, metaphor is assumed as not literary but rather explaining what literature already is doing. The transfer is always there, unless a more radicalized account of metaphor and rhetoric is adopted, e.g. Richards in an odd way - who is vastly misunderstood or misplaced as a "new critic" and who was involved in cybernetics from early on - where the tenor-vehicle relation amounts to a self-deepening and projective model of metaphor, rather than a referential model. As it stands though, every mention of metaphor in literary criticism - the very word metaphor, in the institution I'm describing - is a form of policing, a way of maintaining the institution of reading and commenting. Literary criticism is built on distance from literature. (Hayles: "The crucial move [in Media Specific Analysis (SB)] is to reconceptualize materiality as the interplay between a text's physical characteristics and its signifying strategies. This definition opens the possibility of considering texts as embodied entities while still maintaining a central focus on interpretation.")
In all this, metaphor is assumed as not literary but rather explaining what literature already is doing. The transfer is always there, unless a more radicalized account of metaphor and rhetoric is adopted, e.g. Richards in an odd way - who is vastly misunderstood or misplaced as a "new critic" and who was involved in cybernetics from early on - where the tenor-vehicle relation amounts to a self-deepening and projective model of metaphor, rather than a referential model. As it stands though, every mention of metaphor in literary criticism - the very word metaphor, in the institution I'm describing - is a form of policing, a way of maintaining the institution of reading and commenting. Literary criticism is built on distance from literature. Hayles: "The crucial move (SB: in Media Specific Analysis) is to reconceptualize materiality as the interplay between a text's physical characteristics and its signifying strategies. This definition opens the possibility of considering texts as embodied entities while still maintaining a central focus on interpretation.")