In her 1999 essay "Reinventing the Medium," influential art critic Rosalind Krauss addresses what she calls the "post-medium condition"
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In her 1999 essay "Reinventing the Medium," influential art critic Rosalind Krauss addresses what she calls the "post-medium condition"
When you open that PDF, you are not simply "reading an article." You are engaging in a circuit. The author sent a signal (the essay) through a channel (the academic journal, then the digital scanner, then your screen). You, the receiver, will decode it, highlight it, and possibly send it back out into the world via citation or conversation.