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Unintelligent Design
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 145–156.
Published: 01 May 2017
...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...
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Performance Typing: Larry Eigner’s Selected Poems
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 139–156.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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 Plato . 3r d ed...
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Did the Digital Age Kill the Literary Star?
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 241–256.
Published: 01 May 2017
...—is not an accurate statement.
According to Matthew Kirschenbaum, that distinction goes to Len
Deighton, who wrote his 1970 novel Bomber on an IBM MT/ST (Magnetic
Tape/Selectric Typewriter), a two‑hundred‑pound machine that combined
a Selectric typewriter with a magnetic tape drive. The MT/ST, created...
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Disabled Texts and the Threat of Hannah Weiner
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 123–132.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 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
clearly, perhaps...
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Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011)
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of the phenomena that he studied henceforth.
The following year, he published Gramophon Film Typewriter (in
English, Gramophone Film Typewriter [Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 1999 In this book, he explored how the hegemony of the printed
word was shattered by the emergence...
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Hypermnesia
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 77–95.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 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 designs” of a “bus ticket” awaiting the bite of
the driver’s ticket punch; and an illustration...
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After the Beep: Answering Machines and Creaturely Life
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (2): 133–153.
Published: 01 May 2010
... machine.’ For both people
and computers 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...
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Books Received
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boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 223–227.
Published: 01 February 2000
.... London and New York: Zed, 1999.
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Kittler, Friedrich A. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Trans. and with an intro. by Geof-
frey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz. Writing Science. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford...
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Nâzım Hikmet and the Prose of Communism
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 153–180.
Published: 01 May 2020
... 2020 The motifs of enclosed space and line drawing also support the flashes forward to the year 1943, when three party cell members, Kerim, Ismail, and Ziya, are tortured at the Istanbul Police Headquarters for pos- sessing and exchanging a typewriter and printing paper intended for use in communist...
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The Hitherto Unknown: Toward a Theory of Synthetic Sound
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 71–103.
Published: 01 February 2022
... a qualitatively different ambition. Kittler isolated the models of recording into three different regimes, only coming together in the world of the computer, of electronic media. Yet even here they remain analytically separate: “The historical synchronicity of cinema, phonography, and typewriting separated...
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Introduction: Media Archaeology and the Resources of Film Studies
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (1): 5–23.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., or that remained only as plans and fantasies. Kittler's Gramophone, Film, Typewriter , for example, contains a range of media fantasies, including Rilke's speculation of what the grooves of a skull would sound like when played by a record needle ( 1999 : 38–42). The very organization of Kittler's book, with short...
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The Enigma of Arrival; Or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting ?
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 169–189.
Published: 01 August 2012
... 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 Sunraider, who we come...
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Technologies of Experience: Harun Farocki's Serious Games and Military Aesthetics
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 155–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . 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...
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Beyond the Problematic of Legitimacy: Military Influences on Civilian Society
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 117–128.
Published: 01 February 2005
..., pocket watches, and railroad
equipment, and, later on, typewriters, bicycles, and many other machined
metal products. Although strict interchangeability of parts was not enforced
as thoroughly as in armories, ceaseless inspection and permanent registra-
tion became an integral part of the means...
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Compression in Philosophy
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 125–147.
Published: 01 February 2017
... 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...
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Beyond the Problematic of Legitimacy
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 12–23.
Published: 01 May 2015
...-
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 in armories, ceaseless inspection and permanent regis-
tration...
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All the Marxes at the Big Store; or, General Fetishism
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (1): 209–218.
Published: 01 February 2016
... beyond the pianos we see appearing here and there. There
is not only the unforgettable typewriter endowed with a flying roller (“type-
flying machine on the keyboard of which Harpo, in the office of the pri-
vate detective Groucho, is playing, types with deafening noise and drowns
out the tale...
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“Memorable Equinox”: John Lilly, Dolphin Vocals, and the Tape Medium
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 1–24.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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 , 1961 , 61 – 66 . Lilly...
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Interview with Meg Havran
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 131–144.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in the day when computers were just starting to be used in the office setting. I had a PC, but I used it primarily as a word processor—for example, to type correspondence to authors and members of the masthead. I still used a good ol’ IBM Selectric typewriter to type university forms, address labels...
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Exordium
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 113–127.
Published: 01 November 2021
... or the prose in Poetic Justice , from which a transcription of the Lift Off correction tape of a typewriter is included here, that is, the waste of the poems, questioning what we really read on the page once separated from the safe ground of words. These and other bonds challenge the delimited apparatuses...
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