Ex-foliations : reading machines and the upgrade path / Terry Harpold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harpold, Terry.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 25.

Electronic mediations ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic books.

Reading machines (Data processing equipment).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Every reading is, strictly speaking, unrepeatable; something in it, of it, will vary. Recollections of reading accumulate in relation to this iterable specificity; each takes its predecessors as its foundation, each inflects them with its backward-looking futurity." In Ex-foliations, Terry Harpold investigates paradoxes of reading's backward glances in the theory and literature of the digital field. In original analyses of Vannevar Bush's Memex and Ted Nelson's Xanadu, and in innovative readings of early hypertext fictions by Michael Joyce and Shelley Jackson, Harpold asserts that we should

Contents:

"A future device for individual use"

Historiations : Xanadu and other recollection machines

Revenge of the word : grammatexts of the screen

Ex-foliations

Lexia complexes

Allographs : windows of afternoon

Reading machines.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-330) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6640-7

OCLC:

318220265