Avital Ronell, Finitude's Score:

Electronic culture, like drugs, indicated, I thought, a type of prosthetic écriture. ... On one level, prosthetic écriture had appeared to put writing under erasure. ... Electronic culture makes us ask (again) whether it is now obsolete or timely to write. It arrives on the scene after writing has lost some of its instructional character, utilitarian necessity, or auratic quality. Of course writing has always been thought to be that which is belated, secondary, excremental, and it does not stop with but actually infiltrates electronics and all the programs that involve us. Still, there is a sense in which writing has been obsolesced, divested, leaving us with the question of what to do with the remainders of writing. In my case, I would not hesitate to assert that I am writing for writing because it died. This is why, at least in part, writing is necessarily bound up with mourning. Yet there are many ways to mourn and to encounter the spectral experience in which technology plays a considerable part. (xiii)

-ddd