Om Flatland (1884) och Flatland (2007)

Jakob Lien

doi:10.3384/sens.2002-3030.2017.2.81-84

Authors

Jakob Lien Linköping university

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3384/sens.2002-3030.2017.2.81-84

Abstract

År 1884 kunde man i de engelska bokhandlarna finna en tunn liten bok med titeln Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions publicerad under pseudonymen ”A. Square”. Boken som till en början inte rönte ett särskilt stort intresse visade sig snart vara skriven av den vid tiden välkände brittiske humanisten, samhällsdebattören och teologen Edwin A. Abbott och när upplagan sköt i höjden började snart författarens verkliga namn att dyka upp inom parentes på omslaget.

Author Biography

Jakob Lien, Linköping university

Jakob Lien is the typographer of Sensorium and a PhD student at Linköping University. He holds two master’s degrees in Comparative Literature and Publishing Studies from Stockholm University. Lien’s PhD project is a part of RepRecDigit and its main objective is to trace and analyze how the digital is represented in printed literature, 1950–2010, as theme, motive and metaphor. A preliminary thesis for the project is that a pre-digital and a digital discourse exist that effect not only what you can write but also how one writes, and that these two discourses can be find in the literary representations of the digital. His research interests include media history, poetry and theoretical perspectives on digital technology and literature.