Signature / Hunter Dukes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dukes, Hunter, author.

Series:

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Signatures (Writing).

Autographs.

Physical Description:

xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"30,000-year-old handprints, animal scent, celebrity autographs, air trapped in Antarctic ice, and graffiti tags are all signatures-a seldom explored form of marking that reveals something fundamental about what it means to have a body"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Dotted Line

2. S For Signature

Real Fake

On the Shores of Syros

3. Autograph Collecting

"To Adam, from Big Daddy"

A Victorian State of Mind

Reading Character

Criminal Signatures

Autograph Fever

4. The Origins of Signature

To Astuvansalmi

There Is Nothing Funny about Elk

The Self, Extended

Cave Signatures

Seals and Signets

5. Signing the Body

I Am You

Erotic Inscription

Autographic Skin

6. Signaling Digits, Digital Signatures

Writing Machines

Typewriter

Film

Gramophone

Fingerprinting

Electronic Signatures

7. Paw Prints & Ice Cores

Doctrine of Signatures

Animal Tracks

Epigenetic Signatures

Ice Cores.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dukes, Hunter. Signature

ISBN:

9781501353345

1501353349

OCLC:

1128101405

Publisher Number:

99985734030