Overview

Written communication has become, in today's world, a highly technical business. We compose our manuscripts using word processors, and we send and receive our post, in the main, via e-mail or text message. We write our diaries as blogs, and we check off the goods on our shopping lists with the click of a mouse, tossing them into virtual shopping trolleys. Love letters are corresponded via instant message, internet chatroom, Facebook and MySpace. What we seem to have lost in our modern technological babel is the ductus: the physical and material 'act of handwriting'.

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Author:   Sonja Neef
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
Imprint:   Reaktion Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.757kg
ISBN:  

9781861896537

ISBN 10:   1861896530
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 June 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

- Before Aleph Introduction Manus ex Machina: Thinking handwriting, from the perspective of the screen. Etched in and etched off. Fire and Cinders. Before a Stele Exergue Imprint and Trace: Icon and Index. Resemblance and Touch. In the Beginning Was the Hand. Two Left Hands. Dactylography. Stylus. Before a Line Preamble (Running on)scription: What is Handwriting? Currere. A. a. Carolingian. Itera. 'Ceci tuera cela'. The Calamus of Erasmus. Preposterous Writing. Litterae antiquae. Before a Cookery Book Prolegomenon Writing and Technology: Prometheus and Epimetheus. Tachygraphs. The Script of the Nation. Typewriter and Carbon Paper. Steel-pens and electric fountain-pens. Graphite. As warm as blood: Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen. Ballpoint Pen. Amnes/t/ia of the text processor. Ink Eraser Pen (Tintenkiller). Writing Technology. Before a Photo Fore-Word A Distance, however close: Printed Hands and Electric Pens. Original Copy. The Right Copy. Inversion of the Remainder or: The Left-Handed Snail. The Polygraph. Infra-mince. A Distance, however far. INCIPIT LIBER [= the book begins here] Before a Hand The Screen Saver Writing on the Screen and Saving Handwriting: 'Sports'. Dustfree, not leaving any remainder behind. Technotext. Writing at the start of the 21st century. Writing at the start of the 20th century. On Ballgames. Making the point cursive. Indifference. 0-X/X-0. 0/1 or the Great Attack. Before a Greetings Card The Diary Anne Frank versus Kujau-Hitler: Trace of Remembering and Imprint of Memory. Authentic Ghosts. Archive and Museum. Authentically fake. Archival Authenticity. Text-Images. Deferred Authenticity. Commodity/Reality Fetishism, Nostalgia, Anachronism. Expositions. Fixed Narrative. Image-Texts. 'Dear Kitty'. Anne Frank live. 'Archivization' and 'Musealization'. Before a Grave Tattooing Perforation, Performance: 'I, the Undersigned'. Who is writing? The Tattooing Machine. Till Death Do Us Part. Perforations. The Magic of the Name. Performance. Enfolding the Other. Before a Wall Graffiti Arcades of Writing: Passing by. Arcades. Killing Kool. Power or Meaning. Drawing and Showing. The Graffiti Museum. Aerosol. 'How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?'. The Right Side of Writing. 'I christen myself'. The Right Side of the Wall. Border-Crossings. Paralipomena This Side of Writing After Omega - List of Illustrations Bibliography

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