Choosing the most sustainable deconstruction strategy requires assessment of the effects of various contributing factors including prices and energy embodiment of the materials and components, the travelling distances, energy use and cost associated with the recycling processes, inflation rate, costs of designing the components for reuse-ability, costs of disassembly and re-assembly.
The question of how a storage medium preserves its subject has ramifications for theories of representation and mimesis, as well as for theories of material embodiment.
The first part of this essay conceptualizes these two Spanish novels as material embodiments of digital fiction, redefining the concept of "electronic literature" as independent from the platform from which it is consumed rather than a "born digital" performance including instances of printed text.
My latest book, Living Liberalism, addresses Victorian political culture through political theory, theories of embodiment and the material practices of citizenship.
Are they embodiments of delicacy, of pin-point fragility?
Embodiments of past awesomeness, like Latrell Sprewell, were shipped away.
Tigers are protectors, embodiments of wisdom and spirituality.
It can also mean the four embodiments of the hosshin.
But they are not embodiments of evil.
Nothing contained in section 301 precludes the owner of a material embodiment of a copy or a phonorecord from enforcing a claim of conversion against one who takes possession of the copy or phonorecord without consent.
The Bible, perhaps the first book to be characterized in these terms, was thought to be the material embodiment of Jesus Christ, "a living and breathing likeness of Him" in the words of Erasmus.
