They regulate representation. The concept of zero-wait transfer governs contemporary ideas regarding textuality. In a digital network, much like previous types of value economies, information is produced in order to be exchanged or transferred. However, under digital transfer texts are exchanged according to an atemporal logic and through digital means. Immediation means both immediate and mediated.
Texts are therefore both instantaneous and second-order.
They are heard with both static and clarity. In Baudrillardian fashion, each digital text is derived and yet also real. Time is seemingly no longer a textual component. As Paul Virilio has recently noted , it is time itself that is rendered instantaneous by virtuality. And thus, at this turn, computer fonts illustrate a break in traditional notions surrounding temporality, and representation.