Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts--and the material remains of authorship,...
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Author: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
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Language: English
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Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.

Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

¥6,916

Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

¥6,916
Author: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Format: Paperback
Language: English

What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts--and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading--are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book history, textual criticism, and bibliography when literary texts are distributed across digital platforms, devices, formats, and networks? Indeed, what is textual scholarship when the text of our everyday speech is a verb as often as it is a noun?

These are the questions that motivate Matthew G. Kirschenbaum in Bitstreams, a distillation of twenty years of thinking about the intersection of digital media, textual studies, and literary archives. With an intimate narrative style that belies the cold technics of computing, Kirschenbaum takes the reader into the library where all access to Toni Morrison's papers is mediated by digital technology; to the bitmapped fonts of Kamau Brathwaite's Macintosh; to the process of recovering and restoring fourteen lost HyperPoems by the noted poet William Dickey; and finally, into the offices of Melcher Media, a small boutique design studio reimagining the future of the codex.

A persistent theme is that bits--the ubiquitous ones and zeros of computing--are never self-identical, but always inflected by the material realities of particular systems, platforms, and protocols. These materialities are not liabilities: they are the very bulwark on which we stake the enterprise for preserving the future of literary heritage.

Author: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 11/23/2021
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780812224955

About the Author
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination and Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. He is Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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