Main entry:

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.

Title & Author:

Mechanisms : new media and the forensic imagination / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum.

Edition:

First MIT Press paperback edition

Publication:

Cambridge, MA. ; London : The MIT Press, [2012]
©2008

Description:

XVII, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Every contact leaves a trace" : storage, inscription, and computer forensics -- Extreme inscription : a grammatology of the hard drive -- "An old house with many rooms" : the textual forensics of Mystery_house.dsk -- Save as : Michael Joyce's Afternoons -- Text messaging : the transformissions of "Agrippa."

Summary:

Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability.

ISBN:

9780262517409 (Paperback)
026251740X (pbk.)

Subject:

Gibson, William, 1948- Agrippa.
Joyce, Michael, 1945- Afternoon.
Agrippa (Gibson, William)
Mass media and language.
Mass media Technological innovations.
Discourse analysis Data processing.
Computer storage devices.
Data recovery (Computer science)
Computer Storage Devices
Médias et langage.
Médias Innovations.
Ordinateurs Mémoires.
Récupération des données (Informatique)
Media Studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299042
Call No.: BIB 245174
Status: Available

Location: Library main 299113
Call No.: BIB 245175
Status: External loan