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The Iron Whim

Author : Darren Sean Wershler-Henry
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801445866
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Iron Whim written by Darren Sean Wershler-Henry and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a newsroom full of Underwoods to the more muted tapping and hum of the Selectric. Wershler-Henry casts a bemused eye on the odd history of early writing machines, important and unusual typewritten texts, the creation of On the Road, and the exploits of a typewriting cockroach named Archy, numerous monkeys, poets, and even a couple of vampires. He gathers into his narrative typewriter-related rumors and anecdotes (Henry James became so accustomed to dictating his novels to a typist that he required the sound of a randomly operated typewriter even to begin to compose). And by broadening his focus to look at typewriting as a social system as well as the typewriter as a technological form, he examines the fascinating way that the tool has actually shaped the creative process. With engaging subject matter that ranges over two hundred years of literature and culture in English, The Iron Whim builds on recent interest in books about familiar objects and taps into our nostalgia for a method of communication and composition that has all but vanished.

Iron Whim

Author : Darren Wershler-Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437975260
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Iron Whim written by Darren Wershler-Henry and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casts an amusing new light on the convoluted history of the first writing machines, re-examines important and unusual typewritten texts -- including the manuscript of ¿On the Road¿ and William S. Burroughs¿s ¿cut-ups¿ -- and recounts the exploits of a typewriting cockroach named Archy. Discusses typewriter-related rumors and anecdotes (the dying Henry James had become so accustomed to dictating his novels to a typist that he required the sound of a randomly operated typewriter to begin to compose). Reveals not only the history of and anecdotes about the machine, but also the fascinating way that, over the last two centuries when typewriting was writing, the tool actually shaped the creative process and regulated its users¿ behavior and thought processes.

Paul Auster's Writing Machine

Author : Evija Trofimova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623560810
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Paul Auster's Writing Machine written by Evija Trofimova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Auster is one of the most acclaimed figures in American literature. Known primarily as a novelist, Auster's films and various collaborations are now gaining more recognition. Evija Trofimova offers a radically different approach to the author's wider body of work, unpacking the fascinating web of relationships between his texts and presenting Auster's canon as a rhizomatic facto-fictional network produced by a set of writing tools. Exploring Auster's literal and figurative use of these tools – the typewriter, the cigarette, the doppelgänger figure, the city – Evija Trofimova discovers Auster's “writing machine”, a device that works both as a means to write and as a construct that manifests the emblematic writer-figure. This is a book about assembling texts and textual networks, the writing machines that produce them, and the ways such machines invest them with meaning. Embarking on a scholarly quest that takes her from between the lines of Auster's work to between the streets of his beloved New York and finally to the man himself, Paul Auster's Writing Machine becomes not just a critical investigation but a critical collaboration, raising important questions about the ultimate meaning of Auster's work, and about the relationship between texts, their authors, their readers and their critics.

Evaluation of selected spinels and perovskites as candidate high-temperature molybdenum coatings

Author : Max L. Glenn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluation of selected spinels and perovskites as candidate high-temperature molybdenum coatings written by Max L. Glenn and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of Investigations

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Report of Investigations written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Approaches to the History of Written Culture

Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319541366
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to the History of Written Culture written by Martyn Lyons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private uses are examined. In ten studies, presented by leading historians of scribal culture from seven countries, the book investigates the uses of writing in non-alphabetical as well as alphabetical script, in societies ranging from Native America and ancient Korea to modern Europe. The authors emphasise the material characteristics of writing, and in so doing they pose questions about the definition of writing itself. Drawing on expertise in various disciplines, they give an up-to-date account of the current state of knowledge in a field at the forefront of ‘Book History’.

The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette, Volume 31

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette, Volume 31 written by Anonymous and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 1837 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Mechanics Magazine

Author : John I Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Mechanics Magazine written by John I Knight and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Archives of War

Author : Debra Ramsay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000919935
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Archives of War written by Debra Ramsay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed technologies in shaping the archival records of war. Despite thriving scholarship on the history of war, the history of Operational Record Keeping in the British Army remains unexplored. Since World War I, the British Army has maintained daily records of its operations. These records, Unit War Diaries, are the first official draft of events on the battlefield. They are vital for the army’s operational effectiveness and fundamental to the histories of British conflict, yet the material history of their own production and development has been widely ignored. This book is the first to consider Unit War Diaries as mediated, material artefacts with their own history. Through a unique comparative analysis of the Unit War Diaries of the First and Second World Wars, this book uncovers the mediated processes involved in the practice of operational reporting and reveals how hidden technologies and ideologies have shaped the official record of warfare. Tracking the records into The National Archives in Kew, where they are now held, the book interrogates how they are re-presented and re-interpreted through the archive. It investigates how the individuals, institutions and technologies involved in the production and uses of unit diaries from battlefield to archive have influenced how modern war is understood and, more importantly, waged. This book will be of much interest to students of media and communication studies, military history, archive studies and British history.

Track Changes

Author : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674417070
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Track Changes written by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?

The Buddha in the Machine

Author : R. John Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300194471
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Buddha in the Machine written by R. John Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writers and artists described in this book are joined by a desire to embrace 'Eastern' aesthetics as a means of redeeming 'Western' technoculture. The assumption they all share is that at the core of modern Western culture there lies an originary and all-encompassing philosophical error - and that Asian art offers a way out of that awful matrix. That desire, this book attempts to demonstrate, has informed Anglo- and even Asian-American debates about technology and art since the late nineteenth century and continues to skew our responses to our own technocultural environment.

Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-1859. cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415]

Radon daughter mixture distributions in uranium mine atmospheres

Author : Robert F. Holub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radon daughter mixture distributions in uranium mine atmospheres written by Robert F. Holub and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beneficiation of Western Mesabi Range Oxidized Taconite

Author : Arthur F. Colombo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beneficiation of Western Mesabi Range Oxidized Taconite written by Arthur F. Colombo and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metamorphoses of (New) Media

Author : Julia Genz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443887676
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Metamorphoses of (New) Media written by Julia Genz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current success story of new media and the ongoing digitalisation of our world provide an illuminating starting point for the discussion of the powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a(ny) ‘new’ medium: how do new media evolve and how do they relate to established, ‘old’ media and media uses? What does the rise of new media and media uses imply for other discourses? And not least: which methodological and theoretical approaches help us to understand these developments? Metamorphoses of (New) Media offers an international and interdisciplinary range of studies on these questions. In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection engage with a great variety of examples, from political debate on Twitter to digital storytelling and the game-like experience of DVDs. What these diverse perspectives share, however, is an approach to Metamorphoses of (New) Media as an ongoing, recursive process of change that initiates dialogue and casts light on existing discursive, medial, and aesthetic models.

Education and Its Discontents

Author : Mark Howard Moss
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739169882
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Education and Its Discontents written by Mark Howard Moss and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education and Its Discontents: Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information, by Mark Moss, is an exploration of how the traditional educational environment, particularly in the post-secondary world, is changing as a consequence of the influx of new technology. Students come to the classroom or lecture hall expecting to have their habits and tastes, gleaned from the online world, replicated in an Educational environment. Faculty who do not adapt face enormous obstacles, and faculty that do adapt run the risk of eroding the integrity of what they have been trained to teach. Students now have access to myriad of technologies that instead of supplementing the educational process, have actually taken it over. Issues that run from plagiarism to the erosion of the humanities are now rampant concerns in the post secondary world. Behavior issues, YouTube videos, cell phones, and the incessant clicking of the computer keys are just a few of the technologies altering the educational landscape. Moss discusses that it is now not only how we learn, but what we continue to teach, and how that enormously important legacy is protected. Education and Its Discontents: Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information, by Mark Moss, argues that education has changed and the supremacy of the book and the lecture is now open for debate. What has been gained over the last five hundred years is now susceptible to the vagaries of technology, which compel us to question their continuing relevance.

A Skeptic's Investigation Into Jesus

Author : J.P. Hannah
Publisher : Wipf & Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532674627
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book A Skeptic's Investigation Into Jesus written by J.P. Hannah and published by Wipf & Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does human life have any significance? The statements below have become widely accepted in the Western world: -Life is the accidental product of random events. -The laws of physics are totally deterministic. -Science does not accept a connection between physical matter and human consciousness. -Atheism is a conclusion from evidence while faith is speculation. -Science and faith are incompatible. -Suffering contradicts the existence of a loving, omnipotent God. -Jesus was a compilation of pagan mythologies or a human teacher who was deified. But do these statements represent eternal truths? Are they logical conclusions based on established facts or merely opinions? What is the evidence? To investigate these and other questions of existence and faith, a skeptical academic objectively explored relevant aspects of philosophy, mythology, history, archaeology, cosmology, quantum physics, biochemistry, and various faiths that finally led to investigation of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures (including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the gnostic gospels). The findings of this research not only challenge many modern assumptions but also have significant implications for our understanding of reality. Written with minimum technicality for general readership, this book presents a wide range of interesting and carefully confirmed facts relevant to the above questions. Whether you are an atheist or an agnostic, a Christian, or a follower of another faith, or have simply not been interested, this investigation provides valuable and surprising insights into the nature of the universe and our place in it.