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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gitelman, Lisa
Titre(s) : Scripts, grooves, and writing machines [Texte imprimé] : representing technology in the Edison era / Lisa Gitelman
Publication : Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1999
Description matérielle : viii, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Comprend : Introduction : writing things down, storing them up -- ; Making history, spelling
things out -- ; Imagining language machines -- ; Patent instrument and reading machine
-- ; Paperwork and performance -- ; Automatic writing -- ; Coda : the (hyper) textuality
of everyday life.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-275) and index
"This is a richly imaginative study of machines for writing and reading at the end
of the nineteenth century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as
culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the
relationship between technology and textuality. At the book's heart is the proposition
that technologies of inscription are materialized theories of language. Whether they
failed (like Thomas Edison's "electric pen") or succeeded (like typewriters), inscriptive
technologies of the late nineteenth century were local, often competitive embodiments
of the way people experienced writing and reading. Such a perspective cuts through
the determinism of recent accounts while simultaneously arguing for an interdisciplinary
method for considering texts and textual production. . . . The phonograph and the
typewriter may be things of the past, but this book will resonate with readers who
are engaged daily with computer networks, hypertexts, and the forms that mass media
will take in the new century."--Dust jacket
Sujet(s) : Communication et technologie -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Machines à écrire -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Phonographes -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
États-Unis -- 1865-1898
Indice(s) Dewey :
384.097 3 (23e éd.) = Communications - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0804732701 (cl.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780804732703 (cl.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
0804738726 (pa.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780804738729 (pa.) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb437997451
Notice n° :
FRBNF43799745
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