ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the feedback loop between embodied practice, texts, and intervening techne as a process of the cybernetics of “remanence,” a cyber-forensics term that refers to the traces on media when information is removed. Foys appropriates this term to investigate the implications of mediated interventions into medieval texts and artifacts and how media disruptions and their feedback loops provide for a virtual remainder of the past. This framework leads to some striking comparisons of “durability” – across contemporary Xerox commercials and medieval and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.
