<nettime-ann> Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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> Just out: Sonja Neef, José van Dijck, Eric Ketelaar (red.), Sign Here! 
> Handwriting in the Age of New Media (Amsterdam University Press 2006). 
> isbn 90 5356 816 6 16 x 24 cm, 248 pagina's,
> € 34,50
>
> Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media features a number of 
> articles from different fields, reaching from cultural and media 
> studies to literature, film and art, and from philosophy and 
> information studies to law and archival studies. Questions addressed 
> in this book are: Will handwriting disappear in the age of new 
> (digital) media? What happens to  important cultural and legal 
> concepts, such as original, copy, authenticity, reproducibility, 
> uniqueness, and iterability? Where is the writing hand to be located 
> if handwriting is performed not immediately ‘by hand’ but when it is 
> (re)mediated by electronic or artistic media?   
>  
> Contents:
>  
> *Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of Technical Reproduction: 
> Introduction
> José van Dijck and Sonja Neef
>  
> *Authentic Events: The Diaries of Anne Frank and the Alleged Diaries 
> of Adolf Hitler
> Sonja Neef
>  
> *The Authority of Drawing: Hand, Authenticity, and Authorship
> Michael Wetzel
>  
> *Authenticity and Objectivity in Scientific Communication: 
> Implications of Digital Media
> John Mackenzie Owen
>  
> *Authenticity in Bits and Bytes
> Hannelore Dekeyser
>  
> *Signature Identity Content: Handwriting in an Age of Digital 
> Remediation
> Richard Grusin
>  
> *Writing the Self: Of Diaries and Weblogs
> José van Dijck
>  
> *Hands on the Document: Arnold Dreyblatt’s T Archive
> Arnold Dreyblatt and Jeffrey Wallen
>  
> *Faithfully Submitted: the Logic of the Signature in Marcel Proust’s A 
> la recherche
> Mieke Bal
>  
> *(Hand)writing Film History: Saul Bass Draws Martin Scorsese in a 
> Title Sequence and Writes his Name Underneath
> Rembert Hüser
>  
> *Writing on Archiving Machines
> Eric Ketelaar
>  
> *Blood Samples and Fingerprint Files: Blood as Artificial Matter, 
> Artistic Material and Means of the Signature
> Thomas Fechner-Smarsly
>  
> *Writing Over the Body, Writing With the Body: On Shirin Neshat’s 
> Women of Allah Series
> Begüm Özden Firat
>  
> *Perfor/m/ative Writing: Tattoo, Mark, Signature
> Sonja Neef





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