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An innovative and imaginative study of machines for writing and reading in late nineteenth century America, this book argues that these inscriptive technologies were materialized theories of language: that is, embodiments of the way people perceived writing and reading. Beginning with the promotion of shorthand alphabets, the author investigates varying inscriptive practices, from a surprising and complex genealogy of the phonograph, to new readings of the history of the typewriter and of the earliest silent films. Technological developments coincided with a new awareness of oral and inscribed communication which influenced the growth of consumer culture, literary and artistic experiences of modernity, and the definition of the 'human' sciences, such as linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. As a parallel with the present, this book will resonate with readers who are engaged daily with computer networks, hypertexts, and the forms that mass media will take in the new century.

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