Carol Wilder: Being Analog

"...As a level of description, it [analog] is closer than digital coding to the physical world, closer to corporeality, more kinesthetic, tactile, more-dare I say- 'real'. This can be compared to the 'digital level of description' which 'represents a more abstracted disembodied consciousness, which is at once more expansive and less visceral'...''

From: Carol Wilder, Being Analog in 'The Postmodern Presence: Readings in Postmodernism in American Culture and Society' (2008)
Full essay, Being Analog, at: carolwilder.net/beinganalog.pdf