Table L: Archeologies of Interface "Speaking to listening machines: literary experiments with control interfaces " In his essay “Aurature” (2015a), John Cayley states that “there has been a significant increase in the reading of audio books over the past decade. (…) there has, therefore, been a significant increase in the appreciation of literary artifacts — in their reading, I would say — by way of aurality as opposed to visuality”. But what is reading? Kittler said that reading is like hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines: “Hermeneutic reading makes this displacement of media possible. Instead of solving a puzzle of letters, Anselmus listens to meaning between the lines; instead of seeing signs” (1990: 95). Reading is indeed a way of finding meaning beyond the surface of signs, turning them into something else. Similarly, John Cayley argues that reading is “to transmute perceptible forms — consisting of any material substance — into language” and that “it is the bringing into being of language that proves to us that ‘reading’ has taken place” (2015a). In this sense, listening may be understood as a form of reading. +INFO: www.gredits.org/interfacepolitics/es/speaking-to-listening-machines-literary-experiments-with-control-interfaces-2/

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