...Dennis Tenen The Infinite Monkey Theorem (IMT) is a familiar trope (involving monkeys and typewriters), meant to explore the limits of randomly generated composition. In this essay, I draw a brief genealogy of the trope in philosophy and in fiction, discuss its relevance to several major...

... essay demonstrates this, by a close reading of a number of Eigner poems. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Larry Eigner disability poetics Language writing projective verse typewriters References Adams Hazard Searle Leroy , eds. 2005 . Critical Theory Since...

... manipulated the capacities of her new electronic typewriter to create the distinctive typogra- phy/tectonics of her clairvoyant journals and other texts, a visual technique for which she coined the term “clair style”: I bought a new electric typewriter in January 74 and said quite...

... on a Word Processor?” Slate , March 1 . www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/03/len_deighton_s_bomber_the_first_book_ever_written_on_a_word_processor.html . Kittler Friedrich A. 1999 . Gramophone, Film, Typewriter . Translated by Winthrop-Young Geoffrey Wutz Michael...

... a process and, as a result, brings about new dimensions of human capability and self-understanding,­ is paradigmatic of the phenomena that he studied henceforth. The following year, he published Gramophon Film Typewriter (in English, Gramophone Film Typewriter [Stanford...

.... London and New York: Zed, 1999. 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 231 of 237 Kittler, Friedrich A. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Trans. and with an intro. by Geof- frey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz. Writing Science. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford...

... Stoker’s Dracula, the bite of the vam- pire’s teeth and the analogue bite of the primitive typewriter into the paper used by Mina Harker is one key to the story, and Thomas’s book is also filled with puncture as printing: the blood-drawing needles of a “remark- able” “tattoo”; the “duplication...

... are ‘subject to the appeal of the signifier’; that is, they are both run by programs. ‘Are these humans,’ Nietzsche already asked himself in 1874, eight years before buying a typewriter, ‘or perhaps only thinking, writing, and speaking machines23 20. According to Kittler’s Lacanian...

... . Berlin : Vorwerk 8 . Kittler Friedrich . 1999 . Gramophone, Film, Typewriter . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Lenoir Timothy Lowood Henry . 2005 . “Theaters of War: The Military-Entertainment Complex.” In Collection, Laboratory, Theater: Scenes of Knowledge in...

... New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Kerr Robert . 2013 . “Compression and Oppression.” CTheory , March 28 . www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=719 . Kittler Friedrich . 1999 . Gramophone, Film, Typewriter . Translated by Winthrop-Young...

... optimism. “Recently the typewriter had been drawing him like a magnet,” Ellison reported to Bellow. He felt like he was “nearing completion” of his novel (TDBS, xi). At the core of his novel in progress was Reverend Alonzo Hickman’s attempt to prevent the assas- sination of Senator Adam...

... manufacturing establishments 7 By the late 1850s, the basic components of the American system could be found in organizations producing everything from sewing machines, pocket watches, and railroad equipment, and, later on, typewriters, bicycles, and many other machined metal products. Although strict...

... of the American system could be found in organizations produc- ing everything from sewing machines, pocket watches, and railroad equip- ment, and later on typewriters, bicycles, and many other machined metal products. Although strict interchangeability of parts was not enforced as thoroughly as...

.... Just as there is everywhere in The Big Store what we could call “ele- vatoriality,” so it must be admitted that the principle of the keyboard is at work here well beyond the pianos we see appearing here and there. There is not only the unforgettable typewriter endowed with a flying roller (“type...

... clacking of a typewriter somewhere, and the whiff of Prince Albert tobacco from my father’s pipe. I’ll never have such justification for public personal reminiscing. My father was a founder of your department and chiefly...

... – 101 . Kittler Friedrich . 1999 . Gramophone, Film, Typewriter . Translated by Winthrop-Young Geoffrey Wutz Michael . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Life . 1961 . “ He Barks and Buzzes, He Ticks and Whistles, but Can the Dolphin Learn to Talk? ” July 28...

..., gambling, prostitution, were facts that she accepted casually. Personally honest and physically ‘pure’ al- most to prudery, she could put a lie through the typewriter in so adroit a way that it sounded better than the truth and was legally fireproof. She recog- nized politics as a means of private...

... records, his typewriter, and his ears roughly midway in the course of his long labor with the experimental novel: I had started music early and lived with it daily, and when I broke I tried to break clean. Now in this magical moment all the old love, the old fascination with music...

... loom, the daguerreotype, the Koh-­i-­Noor diamond, the George Jennings water closet, the Tempest Prognosticator, the automatic vote tabulator. Subsequent expos brought first views of the telephone, the typewriter, ketchup, the competing claims of alternating and direct current electricity, the...