The Posthuman Reader in Postprint Literature

Between Page and Screen

Authors

  • Jessica Pressman

Abstract

Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse’s Between Page and Screen (2012) is an augmented reality book of poetry: a codex filled with QR (“Quick Response”) codes that activate a networked Internet connection to produce literature between the book’s pages and the reader’s computer screen. The work produces a mirror effect that depicts the human reader incorporated into the digital network that enables contemporary literature. This essay argues that Between Page and Screen’s depiction of its human reader offers an opportunity to explore how digital literature complicates traditional, print-based expectations of reading by focusing on how we readers become posthuman along with our postprint literature.

Author Biography

  • Jessica Pressman

    Jessica Pressman is author of Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media (Oxford UP, 2014) and co-editor, with N. Katherine Hayles, of Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era (U of Minnesota P, 2013). Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistocope {Bottomless Pit}, with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in 2015.

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Published

2026-05-04

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2015): Writing the Self

Section

Main Section

License

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How to Cite

Pressman, J. (2026). The Posthuman Reader in Postprint Literature: Between Page and Screen. FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, 28(1), 53-69. https://platform.openjournals.nl/FRAME/article/view/27386