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Imprint and trace : handwriting in the age of technology / Sonja Neef.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neef, Sonja.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Penmanship--History.
- Penmanship.
- Writing--Materials and instruments--History.
- Writing.
- Written communication--Technological innovations.
- Written communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- "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."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613588760
- 9781280493539
- 1280493534
- 9781861897381
- 1861897383
- OCLC:
- 775302639
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