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Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path
Terry Harpold
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Description for Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path
Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 368 pages, 65 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
A sophisticated consideration of technologies of reading in the digital age
“Every reading is, strictly speaking, unrepeatable; something in it, of it, will vary. Recollections of reading accumulate in relation to this iterable specificity; each takes its predecessors as its foundation, each inflects them with its backward-looking futurity.” In Ex-foliations, Terry Harpold investigates paradoxes of reading’s backward glances in the theory and literature of the digital field.
In original analyses of Vannevar Bush’s Memex and Ted Nelson’s Xanadu, and in innovative readings of early hypertext fictions by Michael Joyce and Shelley Jackson, Harpold asserts that we should return to these landmarks of ... Read moreIn these reading machines, Harpold proposes, we may detect traits of an unreadable surface—the real limit of the machines’ operations and of the reader’s memories—on which text and image are projected in the late age of print. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
Electronic Mediations
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816651023
SKU
V9780816651023
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About Terry Harpold
Terry Harpold is associate professor of English, film, and media studies at the University of Florida.
Reviews for Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path
"Harpold’s book provides a useful and interesting argument which can aid us greatly in developing a better understanding of textuality in the new media ecology."—Culture Machine "Terry Harpold’s book is in itself a demonstration of one of the messages in this ground-breaking work on the digitization of literature. As he very convincingly argues, it is now time to study ... Read more