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Bitstreams - The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (Hardcover)
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Bitstreams - The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (Hardcover)
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What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that
literary texts—and the material remains of authorship,
publishing, and reading—are reduced to bitstreams, strings of
digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations
for book history, textual criticism, and bibliography when literary
texts are distributed across digital platforms, devices, formats,
and networks? Indeed, what is textual scholarship when the "text"
of our everyday speech is a verb as often as it is a noun? These
are the questions that motivate Matthew G. Kirschenbaum in
Bitstreams, a distillation of twenty years of thinking about the
intersection of digital media, textual studies, and literary
archives. With an intimate narrative style that belies the cold
technics of computing, Kirschenbaum takes the reader into the
library where all access to Toni Morrison's "papers" is mediated by
digital technology; to the bitmapped fonts of Kamau Brathwaite's
Macintosh; to the process of recovering and restoring fourteen lost
"HyperPoems" by the noted poet William Dickey; and finally, into
the offices of Melcher Media, a small boutique design studio
reimagining the future of the codex. A persistent theme is that
bits—the ubiquitous ones and zeros of computing—are never
self-identical, but always inflected by the material realities of
particular systems, platforms, and protocols. These materialities
are not liabilities: they are the very bulwark on which we stake
the enterprise for preserving the future of literary heritage.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Material Texts |
Release date: |
October 2021 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-5341-2 |
Categories: |
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Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-8122-5341-8 |
Barcode: |
9780812253412 |
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