Bitstreams - The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

"An exploration of bibliography in the digital age and the threshold between the formally idealized state machine of the digital computer and the messy, human, and asymmetrical lifeworld of people. The future of digital literary heritage will be as hit and miss, as luck dependent, as fragile, contingent, and (yet) wondrously replete as that of books and manuscripts. It will be in libraries and archives, but also data centers and server farms. It will be in human as well as machine memory. The future of digital literary heritage will be what we make it out to be"--

List of contents

Preface. Actual Facts

Introduction. The Bitstream

Chapter 1. Archives Without Dust

Chapter 2. The Poetics of Macintosh

Chapter 3. The Story of S.

Coda. The Postulate of Normality in Exceptional Times

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

About the author

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Summary

In Bitstreams, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum distills twenty years of thinking about the intersection of digital media, textual studies, and literary archives to argue that bits-the ubiquitous ones and zeros of computing- always depend on the material world that surrounds them to form the bulwark for preserving the future of literary heritage.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew G Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780812224955
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2495-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Material Texts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies