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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457895303321

Autore

Neef Sonja

Titolo

Imprint and trace [[electronic resource] ] : handwriting in the age of technology / / Sonja Neef

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Reaktion Books, 2011

ISBN

1-280-49353-4

9786613588760

1-86189-738-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MathewsAnthony

Disciplina

652.1

652.109

Soggetti

Penmanship - History

Writing - Materials and instruments - History

Written communication - Technological innovations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book was first published in 2008 by Kulturverlag Kadmos Berlin as Abdruck und Spur : Handschrift im Zeitalter ihrer technischen Reproduzier barkeith. First published in English in 2011. English language translation by Anthony Mathews."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Imprint andTrace Cover; Imprint page; Contents; . . . before Aleph; Introduction: Manus ex machina; Before a Stele; 1. Exergue: Imprint and Trace; Before a Line; 2. Preamble: Scribing On; Before a Cookery Book; 3. Prolegomenon: Writing and Technology; Before a Photograph; 4. Fore-Word: A Distance, However Close; Before a Hand; 5. The Screen Saver: Screen-Writing and Hand-Saving; Before a Postcard; 6. The Diary: Anne Frank versus Kujau-Hitler; Before a Grave; 7. Tattooing: Performing Perforation; Before a Wall; 8. Graffiti: Passages of Writing; 9. Paralipomena: This Side of Writing

After Omega . . .References; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Today, writing by hand seems a nearly archaic process. Nearly all of our written communication is digital-our letters are via email or text message, our manuscripts are composed using word processors, our journals are blogs, and we sign checks to pay bills with the push of a



button. Sonja Neef believes that what we have lost in our modern technological conversation is the ductus-the physical and material act of handwriting.            In Imprint and Trace Neef argues, however, that handwriting throughout its history has always been threatened with erasur