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dc.contributor.editorTrotter, David
dc.contributor.editorPryor, Sean
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-19 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:57:30Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:57:30Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier618513
dc.identifierOCN: 1117183706en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32067
dc.description.abstractWriting, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative ideal machine. The collection breaks new ground archaeologically, unearthing representations in literature and film of a whole range of decisive technologies from the stereopticon through census-and slot-machines to the stock ticker, and from the Telex to the manipulation of genetic code and the screens which increasingly mediate our access to the world and to each other. It also contributes significantly to critical and cultural theory by investigating key concepts which articulate the relation between writing and technology: number, measure, encoding, encryption, the archive, the interface. Technography is not just a modern matter, a feature of texts that happen to arise in a world full of machinery and pay attention to that machinery in various ways. But the mediation of other machines has beyond doubt assisted literature to imagine and start to become the ideal machine it is always aspiring to be. Contributors: Ruth Abbott, John Attridge, Kasia Boddy, Mark Byron, Beci Carver, Steven Connor, Esther Leslie, Robbie Moore, Julian Murphet, James Purdon, Sean Pryor, Paul Sheehan, Kristen Treen.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTechnographies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherliterature
dc.subject.otherencoding
dc.subject.othertechnology
dc.subject.othernumber
dc.subject.otherthe archive
dc.subject.otherthe interface
dc.subject.othertechnology in modern literature
dc.subject.otherencryption
dc.subject.othermeasure
dc.subject.othermodern literature
dc.subject.otherStereopticon
dc.titleWriting, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_618513
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf4b2eb29-a039-427a-9368-b62dcacdb4bd
oapen.relation.isbn9781785420184
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia page: Stereopticon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereopticon
oapen.identifier.ocn1117183706


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