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Release: 2012-01-06
Publisher: The MIT Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 026251740X



Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination

In Mechanisms, Matthew 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. Free download Mechanisms books collection in PDF, EPUB, FB2, MOBI, and TXT formats. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understanding the affordances of storage devices is essential to understanding new media. Drawing a distinction between "forensic materiality" and "formal materiality," Kirschenbaum uses applied computer forensics techniques in his study of new media works. Just as the humanities discipline of textual studies examines books as physical objects and traces different variants of texts, computer forensics encourage us to perceive new media in terms of specific versions, platforms, systems, and devices. Kirschenbaum demonstrates these techniques in media-specific readings of three landmark works of new media and electronic literature, all from the formative era of personal computing: the interactive fiction game Mystery House, Michael Joyce's Afternoon: A Story, and William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa. Best deals ebooks download Mechanisms on amazon. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination with free ebook downloads available via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, and hotfile.

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