Tufte and Kress (Response to Casey)

See Casey's post: http://cabooyah.blogspot.com/

Of course, Kress has a certain out in terms of how he designed his book. Although contemplating multimodality, his concern is always how writing works within that world of multimodality. Kress could argue that since he is concerned about writing, he is more free in how he uses that mode. I think he was conceptually lazy and doesn't have as much of a grasp of his subject as he pretends, but that's just me.

The question I have in regard to Kress and multimodality and Tufte and the visual display of information is this: How do we make writing go 3-D? A la Selfe, I assert that writing is always already visual (however we failed to acknowledge this in the past), but how do we, as it were lift it off the page so that we can see it for what it is, materially, from all sides, and make that materiality part of its meaning-making? Or how to we rethink writing so that its form expresses as much as its content? Of course, we already have examples of this, especially from the past, and especially in certain poetry--e e cummings, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein--but how do we realize this more broadly?