Lisa Gitelman
Teoksen Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents tekijä
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Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
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Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (2000) 39 kappaletta
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People that are really very [academic] can get into sensitive positions and have [no] impact on history.
The academic position isn't a sinecure (rather the opposite), but it does have the tendency to produce, for the most part, circumscribed texts. Per Gitelman, "It is [due] to the internal workings of scholarship in particular that, notoriously, scholarly publication stands at odds with marketplace demands, as scholars publish for academic rewards such as promotion and tenure that ensue." (52) So we find ourselves reading the work of a [perhaps very] bright mind on the subject of the Blank, the Typescript, Xenography, and the PDF, which, though conforming to all apposite demands of scholarly/historical writing, has not revealed its subject. We are reading, then, simple history, populated with occasional juicy bits, which is required reading for no one.
On Questions the Text Doesn't Answer
(I'm thinking of the historical progression from hand-writing to PDF and OCR (optical character recognition) progressing even further into text-to-speech, with response from the 'Benjamin-ian' perspective of "mechanical reproduction" (Gitelman does this) though with response from Adorno's Aesthetics in which Benjamin's un-reflected conception of "Aura" is debated. Also I'm wondering about the Deleuzian response to digitized reading machines (such as the one which has read this book, Body Without Organs and all that), the solicitation of writing/reading/text/speech from a Derridean Grammatological perspective. Also was hoping to read about the question/problem of the Archive (touched on briefly) with reference to Spivak and work on teaching/instruction/Interventionalism.)
On the Blank
What does the writing of Edgar Allen Poe have in common with the Chequebook?
On Xerography
Now that we are in the era of corporate underdog sports films (Air (2023), Flamin' Hot (2023), Blackberry(2023)), I am putting together a script for Xerox (2025), in which the initial turn of dramatic irony occurs when the main character (Mr. Haloid Xerox) recognizes the surreptitious use of the Xerox machine, which is that the Xerox itself could be Xerox'd:
"[Users] not infrequently making as many Xeroxes in a month as the machines had been designed to produce in a year." (84)
On the PDF
What does the the mouse cursor have in common with the Medieval text?… (lisätietoja)