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Autore: | Neef Sonja |
Titolo: | Imprint and trace [[electronic resource] ] : handwriting in the age of technology / / Sonja Neef |
Pubblicazione: | London, : Reaktion Books, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
Disciplina: | 652.1 |
652.109 | |
Soggetto topico: | Penmanship - History |
Writing - Materials and instruments - History | |
Written communication - Technological innovations | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | MathewsAnthony |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Imprint and trace |
ISBN: | 1-280-49353-4 |
9786613588760 | |
1-86189-738-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457895303321 |
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