Status Updates From The Economics of Attention:...

I read this before, when it first came out. It turned up in a stack of books a recent doctoral graduate returned to me, so I decided it's worth a second look. Just started--so far, so good. I like how he discusses the sources he's drawing on; at the end of each chapter, he puts his cross-disciplinary sources in conversation with one another. I like the idea--will I like its execution? We shall see.

Comics are not mentioned on this page, although all the aspects of digital texts he mentions can easily be applied to the medium, whether print or digital. Also throughout, he seems to see print in an alphabetic determinism. Shape poetry is the farthest he reaches to visual language in print. He could have gone farther. He says "no decoding needed" the more visual the text. There is indeed decoding.