Sign Here!
Handwriting in the Age of New Media
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
288 pages
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34 halftones
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6-1/4 x 9-1/2
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© 2006
Will handwriting survive the evolution of digital media? Sign Here explores the changing role of manual writing in a world of e-mail, text messaging, and other digital technology. In a series of fascinating essays, media scholars examine the changing concepts of originality, authenticity, and uniqueness—both culturally and legally—as digital media continue to rapidly expand.
Contents
Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of Technical Reproduction:
Introduction
José van Dijck and Sonja Neef
Section One: Authentic Copies
Authentic Events:
The Diaries of Anne Frank and the Alleged Diaries of Adolf Hitler
The Authority of Drawing:
Hand, Authenticity, and Authorship
Michael Wetzel
Authenticity and Objectivity in Scientific Communication:
Implications of Digital Media
John Mackenzie Owen
Authenticity in Bits and Bytes
Hannelore Dekeyser
Section Two: Re-Mediating Handwriting
Signature Identity Content:
Handwriting in an Age of Digital Remediation
Richard Grusin
Writing the Self:
Of Diaries and Weblogs
José van Dijck
Hands on the Document:
Arnold Dreyblatt's T Archive
Arnold Dreyblatt and Jeffrey Wallen
Faithfully Submitted:
The Logic of the Signature in Marcel Proust's A la recherche
Mieke Bal
(Hand)writing Film History:
Saul Bass Draws Martin Scorsese in a Title Sequence and Writes his Name Underneath
Rembert Hüser
Section Three: Handwriting and (Dis-) Embodiment
Writing on Archiving Machines
Eric Ketelaar
Blood Samples and Fingerprint Files:
Blood as Artificial Matter, Artistic Material, and Means of Signature
Thomas Fechner-Smarsly
Writing Over the Body, Writing With the Body
On Shirin Neshat's Women of Allah Series
Begüm Özden Firat
Perfor/m/ative Writing:
Tattoo, Mark, Signature
Sonja Neef
Contributors
Illustration Acknowledgement
Index
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