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Bitstreams - The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (Paperback)
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Bitstreams - The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (Paperback)
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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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