Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines
Published on 1. November 2018
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Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-90-04-37548-2 (ISBN)
Description
Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines offers a compelling reflection on what the notion of legibility entails in a machinic world in which any form of cultural expression - from literary texts, films, artworks and museum exhibits to archives, laws, computer programs and algorithms - necessarily partakes in ever-more complex processes of (mass) mediation. Divided over four clusters focusing on desire, justice, machine and heritage, the chapters in the volume explore what makes something legible or illegible to whom or, indeed, what; the kinds of reading, processing or navigating such il/legibility facilitates or forecloses; and the role critical (media) theory, literary studies and the Humanities in general can play in tackling these and related issues.
Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Anke Bosma, Siebe Bluijs, Sean Cubitt, Colin Davis, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, David Gauthier, Giovanna Fossati, Isabel Capeloa Gil, Pepita Hesselberth, Yasco Horsman, Janna Houwen, Looi van Kessel, Esther Peeren, Seth Rogoff, Roxana Sarion, Frederik Tygstrup, Inge van de Ven, Ruby de Vos, Peter Verstraten, Tessa de Zeeuw
Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Anke Bosma, Siebe Bluijs, Sean Cubitt, Colin Davis, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, David Gauthier, Giovanna Fossati, Isabel Capeloa Gil, Pepita Hesselberth, Yasco Horsman, Janna Houwen, Looi van Kessel, Esther Peeren, Seth Rogoff, Roxana Sarion, Frederik Tygstrup, Inge van de Ven, Ruby de Vos, Peter Verstraten, Tessa de Zeeuw
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Edition
xvi, 280 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-37548-2 (9789004375482)
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Pepita Hesselberth | Janna Houwen | Esther Peeren
Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines [print & e-book]
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12/2018
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Pepita Hesselberth is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies and Digital Culture at Leiden University, and research fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Janna Houwen is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University.
Esther Peeren is Professor of Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam.
Ruby de Vos is a PhD Candidate at the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture at the University of Groningen.
Janna Houwen is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University.
Esther Peeren is Professor of Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam.
Ruby de Vos is a PhD Candidate at the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture at the University of Groningen.