Legibility in the age of signs and machines /
Legibility in the age of signs and machines /
edited by Pepita Hesselberth, Janna Houwen, Esther Peeren and Ruby de Vos.
- 1 online resource.
- Thamyris/intersecting : place, sex and race, Volume 33 1570-7253 ; Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353336 .
- Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 33. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353336. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines / Desire -- Legible Affects: The Melodramatic Imagination in Painting / Overreading: Intentions, Mistakes and Lies / Freud’s Conquest of the Dreamscape: Legibility and Power in Freud’s “Specimen Dream” / Illegible Desire: James Purdy’s Resistance to Sexual Identity / Justice -- The Legibility of Legislation in Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” / Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility / Encountering the Law: Machinic and Theatrical Space in Criminal Prosecution / Machine -- OK, Computer? Understanding Cybernetic Personhood / Machine Language and the Illegibility of the Zwischen / Connectivity, Legibility and the Mass Image / Too Much to Read? Negotiating (Il)legibility between Close and Distant Reading / Heritage -- Between Nostalgia and Utopia: A Conversation on the Legibility of Film Archives / Intersecting Frames of Legibility in Conversion de Piritu (1690): A Remodeling of Paratexts in the Digital Setting / “That the Section ‘Weapons’ Had to Be Plentiful Is Evident for Aceh”: The Readability of Colonial Conquest in Dutch Ethnographic Exhibitions / Ledgers and Legibility: A Conversation on the Significance of Noise within Digital Colonial Archives / Coda -- Representational Assemblages: Forms, Concerns, Affects / Pepita Hesselberth , Janna Houwen , Esther Peeren and Ruby de Vos -- Ernst van Alphen -- Colin Davis -- Seth Rogoff -- Looi van Kessel -- Siebe Bluijs -- Isabel Capeloa Gil -- Tessa de Zeeuw -- Yasco Horsman -- David Gauthier -- Sean Cubitt -- Inge van de Ven -- Peter Verstraten and Giovanna Fossati -- Roxana Sarion -- Anke Bosma -- Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld and Pepita Hesselberth -- Frederik Tygstrup.
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
9789004376175
10.1163/9789004376175 DOI
2018058498
Criticism, Textual.
Legibility (Printing)
Reading, Psychology of.
Hermeneutics.
Archival materials--Digitization.
Machine learning.
P47
302.2
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines / Desire -- Legible Affects: The Melodramatic Imagination in Painting / Overreading: Intentions, Mistakes and Lies / Freud’s Conquest of the Dreamscape: Legibility and Power in Freud’s “Specimen Dream” / Illegible Desire: James Purdy’s Resistance to Sexual Identity / Justice -- The Legibility of Legislation in Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” / Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility / Encountering the Law: Machinic and Theatrical Space in Criminal Prosecution / Machine -- OK, Computer? Understanding Cybernetic Personhood / Machine Language and the Illegibility of the Zwischen / Connectivity, Legibility and the Mass Image / Too Much to Read? Negotiating (Il)legibility between Close and Distant Reading / Heritage -- Between Nostalgia and Utopia: A Conversation on the Legibility of Film Archives / Intersecting Frames of Legibility in Conversion de Piritu (1690): A Remodeling of Paratexts in the Digital Setting / “That the Section ‘Weapons’ Had to Be Plentiful Is Evident for Aceh”: The Readability of Colonial Conquest in Dutch Ethnographic Exhibitions / Ledgers and Legibility: A Conversation on the Significance of Noise within Digital Colonial Archives / Coda -- Representational Assemblages: Forms, Concerns, Affects / Pepita Hesselberth , Janna Houwen , Esther Peeren and Ruby de Vos -- Ernst van Alphen -- Colin Davis -- Seth Rogoff -- Looi van Kessel -- Siebe Bluijs -- Isabel Capeloa Gil -- Tessa de Zeeuw -- Yasco Horsman -- David Gauthier -- Sean Cubitt -- Inge van de Ven -- Peter Verstraten and Giovanna Fossati -- Roxana Sarion -- Anke Bosma -- Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld and Pepita Hesselberth -- Frederik Tygstrup.
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
9789004376175
10.1163/9789004376175 DOI
2018058498
Criticism, Textual.
Legibility (Printing)
Reading, Psychology of.
Hermeneutics.
Archival materials--Digitization.
Machine learning.
P47
302.2