Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production

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ISBN: 9780415918640 | 0415918642
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Copyright: 11/10/1997

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Language Machinesquestions any easily progressive model of technological change, demonstrating the persistence rather than the obsolescence of language technologies over time, the continuous and complicated overlap of pens, presses, screens and voice. In these essays new technologies do not simply replace, but rather draw upon, absorb, displace and resituate earlier technologies.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Language Machines	p. 1
Pens
The Female Pen: Writing as a Woman	p. 17
The Duplicity of the Pen	p. 39
Presses
Pressing Subjects; Or, The Secret Lives of Shakespeare's Compositors	p. 75
Print Culture and Literary Markets in Colonial India	p. 108
Screens
Screening Time	p. 137
Screen Wars: Transmedia Appropriations from Eisenstein to A TV Dante and Carmen Sandiego	p. 160
The Condition of Virtuality	p. 183
Voice
The Voice in the Machine: Hazlitt, Hardy, James	p. 209
Performing Talking Cures: Artaud's Voice	p. 233
Kubla Honky Tonk: Voice in Cyber-Pidgin	p. 252
Contributors	p. 273
Illustration Credits	p. 276
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