Matthew G. (Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, University of Maryland) Kirschenbaum
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. 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...
In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern w...
