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"Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative ideal machine. The collection breaks new ground archaeologically, unearthing representations in literature and film of a whole range of decisive technologies from the stereopticon through census-and slot-machines to the stock ticker, and from the Telex to the manipulation of genetic code and the screens which increasingly mediate our access to the world and to each other. It also contributes significantly to critical and cultural theory by investigating key concepts which articulate the relation between writing and technology: number, measure, encoding, encryption, the archive, the interface. Technography is not just a modern matter, a feature of texts that happen to arise in a world full of machinery and pay attention to that machinery in various ways. But the mediation of other machines has beyond doubt assisted literature to imagine and start to become the ideal machine it is always aspiring to be."--Publisher's description.

Literature --- Literature and technology --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc

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This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology—now the dominant feature of our civilization—in fiction, non-fiction, film, and advertising. It answers important questions about the meanings people ascribe to technology, the hopes and fears we express in the different narratives, the effect of those narratives upon us, and the new forms of myth those narratives represent. Narratives of Technology offers an approach grounded in the humanities, adding another perspective to that of social scientists and technologists. .

Culture --- Literature --- Technology in literature. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Cultural and Media Studies, general. --- Literature and Technology/Media. --- Literary Theory. --- Study and teaching. --- Philosophy. --- Technology --- Literature and technology. --- Technology in popular culture. --- Social aspects. --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Cultural studies --- Theory --- Popular culture --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Literature—Philosophy.

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This work is the first history of recorded literature since Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877. It traces the tradition from phonographic books made on wax cylinders to talking books made for blinded soldiers returning from the First World War and, much later, the commercial audiobooks heard today. Addressing the vexed relationship between orality and print, the author shows how talking books developed both as a way of reproducing printed books and as a way of overcoming their limitations. In a wide-ranging overview, he charts the talking book's evolution across numerous media (records, tapes, discs, digital files), its reception by a bemused public, and impassioned disputes over its legitimacy. Testimonials drawn from the archives of charities for war-blinded veterans and pioneering audio publishers including Caedmon, Books on Tape, and Audible vividly recreate how audiences over the past century have responded to literature read out loud. This book poses a series of conceptual questions too: What exactly is the relationship between spoken and printed texts? How does the experience of listening to books compare to that of reading them? What influence does a book's narrator have over its reception? What methods of close listening are appropriate to such narratives? What new formal possibilities are opened up by sound recording? Sound technology turns out to be every bit as important as screens to the book's ongoing transformation. In sum, this book breaks from convention by treating audiobooks as a distinctive art form that has profoundly influenced the way we read.

Audiobooks --- Literature and technology --- Talking books --- Blind --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- Audio books --- Books, Cassette --- Books, Recorded --- Books on tape --- Cassette books --- Recorded books --- Sound recordings --- History. --- Books and reading --- Book history --- Sociology of literature --- audiobooks --- book history --- Audiobooks. --- Hörbuch. --- Literatur. --- Literature and technology. --- Talking books. --- Technischer Fortschritt. --- Technologie. --- Vertonung. --- Livres audio --- Littérature et technique --- Histoire.

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Si la notation informatique a été souvent problématisée pour le cinéma et la danse, elle reste encore largement inexplorée pour le théâtre. Ce livre se propose de faire le point sur l'état des pratiques de notation dans le travail de mise en scène afin d'apprécier l'appropriation possible ou utopique des nouvelles technologies dans le champ des arts du spectacle. Comment les différents acteurs du processus théâtral organisent-ils leur travail collaboratif ? Quelle est la part du metteur en scène dans la notation ? Quels sont les fonctions et objectifs de l'assistant dans le travail de prise de notes ? Chaque corps de métier utilise-t-il son propre système ? Quelle est la place de l'informatique ? Comment peut-on envisager l'intégration du numérique dans la création du spectacle afin d'offrir un nouvel outil pour la notation et de contribuer à l'évolution du métier de metteur en scène ?

Theatrical science --- Theater --- Literature and technology. --- Théâtre --- Littérature et technologie --- Production and direction. --- Technological innovations. --- Production et mise en scène --- Innovations --- Théâtre --- Littérature et technologie --- Production et mise en scène

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3 Practices; Pioneers (Late Twentieth-Century Digital); Twenty-First-Century Digital Practice; 4 Softwares; What Is Software Studies?; Case Studies; 5 Futures; Summation; A Few Contexts; Speculations; What May Be; Appendices; The New Bucolic: Ekphrasis in the Digital Meadow; Dance Bones and Neural Ignition: The Dilemma of Definition; Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Hippies, and the Singularity; The Imminent, Immanent Binary Buddha; Poetry Is Cryptography; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Appendices; References; Index. A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetry's concerns with being.

Computer poetry --- Literature and technology. --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- Poetics --- Computational linguistics --- Poetry --- History and criticism. --- Technique. --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art --- HUMANITIES/Literature & Criticism --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies