"Anyone who teaches courses in digital culture or media studies knows how difficult it is to find scholarly essays on new media that consider these developments in relation to social and technological precedents. "Memory Bytes" fills this gap."--Brian Goldfarb, author of "Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom"
"Anyone who teaches courses in digital culture or media studies knows how difficult it is to find scholarly essays on new media that consider these developments in relation to social and technological precedents. "Memory Bytes" fills this gap."--Brian Goldfarb, author of "Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom"
Introduction / Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil 1 Part I. Intellectual Histories of the Information Age Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin's New Experiments of 1751 / Laura Rigal 23 From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project / David DePew 47 The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics / Ronald E. Day 76 Part II. Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale's Tours, IMAX, and Motion Simulation Rides / Lauren Rabinovitz 99 Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States / Judith Babbitts 126 The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi 150 Part III. Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History / John Durham Peters 177 Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls / Lisa Gitelman 199 Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics / Scott Curtis 218 Part IV. Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media / N. Katherine Hayles 257 Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions / Thomas Swiss 283 Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime / Vivian Sobchack 305 Selected Bibliography 331 Contributors 335 Index 339
Introduction / Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil 1 Part I. Intellectual Histories of the Information Age Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin's New Experiments of 1751 / Laura Rigal 23 From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project / David DePew 47 The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics / Ronald E. Day 76 Part II. Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale's Tours, IMAX, and Motion Simulation Rides / Lauren Rabinovitz 99 Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States / Judith Babbitts 126 The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi 150 Part III. Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History / John Durham Peters 177 Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls / Lisa Gitelman 199 Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics / Scott Curtis 218 Part IV. Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media / N. Katherine Hayles 257 Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions / Thomas Swiss 283 Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime / Vivian Sobchack 305 Selected Bibliography 331 Contributors 335 Index 339
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