Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2022

Bitstreams

The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

In the series Material Texts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812298048

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About this book

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.

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

Author / Editor information

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination and Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. He is Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Reviews

"Matthew Kirschenbaum has almost single-handedly taught us how to read digital objects as material texts. Now, in this field-defining achievement, he shows us the future of bibliography. Like the works of D. F. McKenzie before it, Bitstreams will be required reading for generations to come."—Whitney Trettien, University of Pennsylvania

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Actual Facts Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction The Bitstream Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Archives Without Dust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2 The Poetics of Macintosh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3 The Story of S. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Coda The Postulate of Normality in Exceptional Times Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 160
Illustrations
- Other: 12 halftones
Keywords: Book history; Bibliography; Media archaeology; Literary history; Archives; Bookmaking; Toni Morrison; Kamau Brathwaite; William Dickey; Ship of Theseus; Future of the archive; Future of literary history; Public memory; Transmedia; Born-digital; Rosenbach lectures

eBook

Published: November 23, 2021
ISBN: 9780812298048