Abstract
Contemporary scholarship across the humanities repeatedly underscores the need for an engagement with questions of transmedial-ity, intermediality, and media convergence. Surveying this turn towardthe borderlands between media forms, Lev Manovich traces back its origins to the emergence of new technologies and artistic forms in thesecond half of the twentieth century. For Manovich, the concept of the individuated medium—a concept that had held sway in discussions of art and literature for centuries—becomes obsolescent with the riseof artworks and platforms that transform the crossing of boundaries between different media into creative potentialities and conditions of possibility
