Skeuomorphism emerged as a device in design: a way of making digital objects imitate traces of physical ones. Disk icons that still mean “save,” envelopes that represent e-mails, leather textures in applications that never touched any real material. These surviving signs no longer serve any practical function, yet they carry the memory of a world that existed before the screen. They are remnants of a lost materiality, small anchors that keep the digital experience tied to forms of relation that