Reproducibility: Determining Presence, Generating Absence

This is not a digital resolution for this author (though much of what I've written is actually reproduced from other writings) – there are no zeros or ones, blacks or whites. In fact, I have a confession to make. I have also been implicated in this abstraction, this death of the real. I have reproduced words, sounds, images. I have digitised text, videotape, music. I have taken many lives and robbed many works of art of their aura, their potential presence. Perhaps, I have little authority to judge in this matter …