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Imprint and Trace : Handwriting in the Age of Technology.
Today, writing by hand seems a nearly archaic process. Nearly all of our written communication is digital--our letters are via email or text message, our manuscripts are composed using word processors, our journals are blogs, and we sign checks to pay bills with the push of a button. Sonja Neef beli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Today, writing by hand seems a nearly archaic process. Nearly all of our written communication is digital--our letters are via email or text message, our manuscripts are composed using word processors, our journals are blogs, and we sign checks to pay bills with the push of a button. Sonja Neef believes that what we have lost in our modern technological conversation is the ductus--the physical and material act of handwriting. In Imprint and Trace Neef argues, however, that handwriting throughout its history has always been threatened with erasure. It exists in a dual state: able to be. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (368 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781861897381 1861897383 |