Matthew G Kirschenbaum

Bitstreams

The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An exploration of bibliography in the digital age and the threshold between the formally idealized state machine of the digital computer and the messy, human, and asymmetrical lifeworld of people. The future of digital literary heritage will be as hit and miss, as luck dependent, as fragile, contingent, and (yet) wondrously replete as that of books and manuscripts. It will be in libraries and archives, but also data centers and server farms. It will be in human as well as machine memory. The future of digital literary heritage will be what we make it out to be"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253412
• ISBN-10: 0812253418
• Artikelnr.: 61113073

Autorenporträt

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination and Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. He is Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Actual Facts
Introduction. The Bitstream
Chapter 1. Archives Without Dust
Chapter 2. The Poetics of Macintosh
Chapter 3. The Story of S.
Coda. The Postulate of Normality in Exceptional Times
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index