Mechanisms New Media and the Forensic Imagination

Name: Mechanisms New Media and the Forensic Imagination
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ISBN: 9780262517409

ISBN-10: 026251740X

ISBN-13: 9780262517409

Edition: 2008

Authors: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

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In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understanding the affordances of storage devices is essential to understanding new media. Drawing a distinction between "forensic materiality" and "formal materiality," Kirschenbaum uses applied computer forensics techniques in his study of new media works. Just as the humanities discipline of textual studies…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.06" wide x 9.00" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland. He was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.



Preface


Introduction: "Awareness of the Mechanism"



"Every Contact Leaves a Trace": Storage, Inscription, and Computer Forensics



Extreme Inscription: A Grammatology of the Hard Drive



"An Old House with Many Rooms": The Textual Forensics of Mystery_House.Dsk



Save As: Michael Joyce's Afternoons



Text Messaging: The Transformissions of "Agrippa"


Coda: The Forensic Imagination


Appendix


Works Cited


Index