| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Contents |
Imprint andTrace Cover; Imprint page; Contents; ... before Aleph; Introduction: Manus ex machina; Before a Stele; 1. Exergue: Imprint and Trace; Before a Line; 2. Preamble: Scribing On; Before a Cookery Book; 3. Prolegomenon: Writing and Technology; Before a Photograph; 4. Fore-Word: A Distance, However Close; Before a Hand; 5. The Screen Saver: Screen-Writing and Hand-Saving; Before a Postcard; 6. The Diary: Anne Frank versus Kujau-Hitler; Before a Grave; 7. Tattooing: Performing Perforation; Before a Wall; 8. Graffiti: Passages of Writing; 9. Paralipomena: This Side of Writing |
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After Omega . . .References; Bibliography |
| Summary |
Today, writing by hand seems a nearly archaic process. Nearly all of our written communication is digital--our letters are via email or text message, our manuscripts are composed using word processors, our journals are blogs, and we sign checks to pay bills with the push of a button. Sonja Neef believes that what we have lost in our modern technological conversation is the ductus--the physical and material act of handwriting. In Imprint and Trace Neef argues, however, that handwriting throughout its history has always been threatened with erasure. It exists in a dual state: able to be |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Penmanship -- History
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Writing materials and instruments -- History.
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Written communication -- Technological innovations
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Handwriting.
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Penmanship
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Writing materials and instruments
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Written communication -- Technological innovations
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781861897381 |
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1861897383 |
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