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Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era

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 | #1438845 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  2000-01-01 | Original language:English |  8.50 x1.00 x5.50l,.80 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Lively media connections|By A Customer|This extraordinary book makes startling, illuminating, and elegant connections between what seem to be unrelated events and objects, and thereby shifts how we can understand changes in media from the mid nineteenth century into the present. It is beautifully written, and witty and erudite besides.
Gitelman has a great ability to| |"The range of Gitelman's evidence is impressive: deep research in the Edison archives, labels, patent documents, and literary sources. Historians will gain the most from the early chapters about the prehistory of phonography and the ways Americans perceived E

This is a richly imaginative study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the nineteenth century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality.

At the book’s heart is the proposition that technologies of inscription are materialized theories of language. Whether they failed (like Thomas Edison’s &ldq...

You easily download any file type for your device.Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era   |  Lisa Gitelman. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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