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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Memory bytes. Durham : Duke University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)607074619 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lauren Rabinovitz; Abraham Geil |
| ISBN: | 0822332280 9780822332282 0822332418 9780822332411 |
| OCLC Number: | 52587503 |
| Description: | vi, 346 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. Intellectual histories of the information age ; Imperial attractions: Benjamin Franklin's new experiments of 1751 / Laura Rigal ; From heat engines to digital printouts: machine models of the body from the Victorian era to the human genome project / David Depew ; The erasure and construction of history for the information age: positivism and its critics / Ronald E. Day -- pt. II. Visual culture, subjectivity, and the education of the senses ; More than the movies: a history of somatic visual culture through Hale's tours, IMAX, and motion simulation rides / Lauren Rabinovitz ; Stereographs and the construction of a visual culture in the United States / Judith Babbitts ; The convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: the next generation of military training simulations / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi -- pt. III. Materiality, time, and the reproduction of sound and motion ; Helmholtz, Edison, and sound history / John Durham Peters ; Media, materiality, and the measure of the digital, or, The case of sheet music and the problem of piano rolls / Lisa Gitelman ; Still/moving: digital imaging and medical hermeneutics / Scott Curtis -- pt. IV. Digital aesthetics, social texts, and art objects ; Bodies of texts, bodies of subjects: metaphoric networks in new media / N. Katherine Hayles ; Electronic literature: discourses, communities, traditions / Thomas Swiss ; Nostalgia for a digital object: regrets on the quickening of quicktime / Vivian Sobchack. |
| Responsibility: | Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil, editors. |
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