Memory bytes : history, technology, and digital culture / Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil, editors.
| Other author | Rabinovitz, Lauren, 1950-2025 |
| Other author | Geil, Abraham. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2004. |
| Description | vi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-334) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003015045 |
| ISBN | 0822332280 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822332418 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | P96.T42 M45 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |