Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.

ISBN 10: 0262113112 / ISBN 13: 9780262113113

Verlag: The MIT Press, 2007

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 036219

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination
• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0262113112
• ISBN-13: 9780262113113
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Literary Studies

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Inhaltsangabe

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 examines books as physical objects and traces different variants of texts, computer forensics encourage us to perceive new media in terms of specific versions, platforms, systems, and devices. Kirschenbaum demonstrates these techniques in media-specific readings of three landmark works of new media and electronic literature, all from the formative era of personal computing: the interactive fiction game Mystery House, Michael Joyce's Afternoon: A Story, and William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa."

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and the author of the award-winning Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press).