The Future Of The Book

Sommario

Geoffrey Nunberg, Introduction Carla Hesse, The Book in Time James J. O'Donnell, Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus: The Pragmatics of the New Paul Duguid, Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book Geoffrey Nunberg, Farewell to the Information Age Regis Debray, Dematerialization and Desacralization: The Book as a Symbolic Object Patrick Bazin, Towards Meta-reading Luca Toschi, Hypertext and the Author: New Texts, Old Roots George Landow, Twenty Minutes into the Future, or How Are We Moving beyond the Book? Raffaele Simone, The Body of the Text Jay David Bolter, Ekphrasis, Virtual Reality, and the Future of Writing Michael Joyce, (Re)placing the Author: "A Book in the Ruins" Umberto Eco, Afterword

Info autore

Geoffrey Nunberg is a research scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and a professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.

Riassunto

Exploring the "death" of the book, this collection of essays suggests that the digitization of discourse will not be effected without some wrenching social and cultural dislocations.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Umberto Eco, Geoffrey Nunberg
• Con la collaborazione di: Geoffrey Nunberg (Editore), Umberto Eco (Postfazione)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.12.1996
• EAN: 9780520204515
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20451-5
• Pagine: 250
• Serie: Market Economy; Market Economy
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata