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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