Adam Walker - Textual Actants

TEXTUAL ACTANTS is a reflexive exploration of the things which hold things together, be they lengths of steel, programming protocols, recognised authors, or narratives of self. It pivots from the steel I-beam, and a pilgrimage to the steelworks in Wallonia that first made them, to the onscreen 'I-beam' cursor by which we navigate digital text. Via the supposed blankness of deserts and the techno-utopian imaginaries of Silicon Valley, six interweaving texts attend to the slippery shifting relations of textualities and materialities, and where bodies and subjects (and authors and readers) sit within these.