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Title Legibility in the age of signs and machines / edited by Pepita Hesselberth, Janna Houwen, Esther Peeren and Ruby de Vos
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) : illustrations (some color
Series Thamyris/intersecting : place, sex and race, 1570-7253 ; volume 33
Thamyris intersecting ; no 33.
Contents 1. Legible affects: the melodramatic imagination in painting / Ernst van Alphen -- 2. Overreading: intentions, mistakes and lies / Colin Davis -- 3. Freud's conquest of the dreamscape: legibility and power in Freud's "Specimen dream" / Seth Rogoff -- 4. Illegible desires: James Purdy's resistance to sexual identity / Looi van Kessel -- 5. The legibility of legislation in Kafka's "In the penal colony" / Siebe Bluijs -- 6. Lex Fugit: on acts of legibility / Isabel Capeloa Gil -- 7. Encountering the law: machinic and theatrical space in criminal prosecution / Tessa de Zeeuw -- 8. OK, computer? Understanding cybernetic personhood / Yasco Horsman -- 9. Machine-language and the illegibility of the Zwischen / David Gauthier -- 10. Connectivity, legibility and the mass image / Sean Cubitt -- 11. Too much to read? Negotiating (il)legibility between close and distant reading / Inge van de Ven -- 12. Between nostalgia and utopia: a conversation on the legibility of film archives / Peter Verstraten and Giovanna Fossati -- 13. Intersecting frames of legibility in Conversion de Piritu (1690): a remodeling of paratexts in the digital setting / Roxana Sarion -- 14. "That the section 'weapons' had to be plentiful is evident for Aceh": the readability of colonial conquest in Dutch ethnographic exhibitions / Anke Bosma -- 15. Ledgers and legibility: a conversation on the significance of noise within digital colonial archives / Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld and Pepita Hesselberth -- 16. Representational assemblages: reading culture in the twenty-first century / Frederik Tygstrup
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Criticism, Textual.
Legibility (Printing)
Reading, Psychology of.
Hermeneutics.
Archival materials -- Digitization.
Machine learning.
hermeneutics.
Archival materials -- Digitization.
Criticism, Textual.
Hermeneutics.
Legibility (Printing)
Machine learning.
Reading, Psychology of.
Form Electronic book
Author Hesselberth, Pepita, editor
Houwen, Janna, editor
Peeren, Esther, editor
Vos, Ruby de, editor
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004376175 (electronic bk)
9004376178 (electronic bk)