Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination / Edition 1

Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination / Edition 1

by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
     
 

A new "textual studies" and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa," Michael Joyce'sAfternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.See more details below

Overview

A new "textual studies" and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa," Michael Joyce'sAfternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780262113113
Publisher:
MIT Press
Publication date:
01/31/2008
Edition description:
New Edition
Pages:
320
Product dimensions:
7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction: "Awareness of the Mechanism" 1

1 "Every Contact Leaves a Trace": Storage, Inscription, and Computer Forensics 25

2 Extreme Inscription: A Grammatology of the Hard Drive 73

3 "An Old House with Many Rooms": The Textual Forensics of Mystery_House.Dsk 111

4 Save As: Michael Joyce's Afternoons 159

5 Text Messaging: The Transformissions of "Agrippa" 213

Coda: The Forensic Imagination 249

Appendix 261

Works Cited 265

Index 279

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