Textuality and the Visual

TEXTUALITY AND THE VISUAL: A RESPONSE

“Pictures,” declares Morris Eaves in his provocative “Graphicality: Multimedia Fables for ‘Textual Critics’,” “remain a thorn in the side even of cyberspace. . . . video and audio . . . remain grotesquely primitive, complicated, and elusive beside the reasssuringly streamlined and stable letters and lines of standard, searchable, intermeasurable ASCII text. . . . the relation of the graphical to the textual remains […]