Material noise : reading theory as artist's book / Anne M. Royston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Royston, Anne M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists' books.

Art and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : MIT Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: Between Theory and Art(ist's Book) p. 1

Situating a Book Studies Project: Artists' Books Studies p. 5

The Book as Technology, or, Books and Screens p. 9

A Shape for Artistic Argument p. 13

The Book, Material Instrument p. 20

Material Forms, Material Formlessness p. 25

1 In Pursuit of Nonknowledge in the Encyclopedia Da Costa p. 33

Bivalve: Acéphale p. 39

Bivalve: Anonymat p. 45

2 Networks and Remains on the Page in Jacques Derrida's Glas p. 61

A Spiderweb of Signs p. 64

Columns and Between Columns p. 68

A Networked Glas p. 76

The Book('s) Remains Activated p. 81

3 De-Black-Boxing Media: The Technological Feminine in Avital Ronell's The Telephone Book p. 85

Toward a Construction of the Black Box p. 87

An Illegible Feminine p. 91

De-Black-Boxing Communication and Media p. 102

4 Mark C. Taylor and Shelley Jackson's Texts of Skin p. 109

Hiding on the Skin p. 113

From Text to Hypertext p. 121

Skin and the Entropy of Material p. 129

Conclusion: The Noise in the Machine p. 135

Stochastic Poetics's Stutter and Noise p. 137

Ghosts in the Archive in Tom Tit Tot p. 143

The Quantum Mechanics of Stochastic Poetics p. 147

Production as Poetics p. 149

The N-Dimensionality of Form p. 154.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262354950

0262354950

OCLC:

1099680199

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.