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.

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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 – necessaril...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Hesselberth, Pepita,
Houwen, Janna,
Peeren, Esther,
Vos, Ruby de,
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines / Pepita Hesselberth , Janna Houwen , Esther Peeren and Ruby de Vos
  • Desire
  • Legible Affects: The Melodramatic Imagination in Painting / Ernst van Alphen
  • Overreading: Intentions, Mistakes and Lies / Colin Davis
  • Freud’s Conquest of the Dreamscape: Legibility and Power in Freud’s “Specimen Dream” / Seth Rogoff
  • Illegible Desire: James Purdy’s Resistance to Sexual Identity / Looi van Kessel
  • Justice
  • The Legibility of Legislation in Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” / Siebe Bluijs
  • Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility / Isabel Capeloa Gil
  • Encountering the Law: Machinic and Theatrical Space in Criminal Prosecution / Tessa de Zeeuw
  • Machine
  • OK, Computer? Understanding Cybernetic Personhood / Yasco Horsman
  • Machine Language and the Illegibility of the Zwischen / David Gauthier
  • Connectivity, Legibility and the Mass Image / Sean Cubitt
  • Too Much to Read? Negotiating (Il)legibility between Close and Distant Reading / Inge van de Ven
  • Heritage
  • Between Nostalgia and Utopia: A Conversation on the Legibility of Film Archives / Peter Verstraten and Giovanna Fossati
  • Intersecting Frames of Legibility in Conversion de Piritu (1690): A Remodeling of Paratexts in the Digital Setting / Roxana Sarion
  • “That the Section ‘Weapons’ Had to Be Plentiful Is Evident for Aceh”: The Readability of Colonial Conquest in Dutch Ethnographic Exhibitions / Anke Bosma
  • Ledgers and Legibility: A Conversation on the Significance of Noise within Digital Colonial Archives / Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld and Pepita Hesselberth
  • Coda
  • Representational Assemblages: Forms, Concerns, Affects / Frederik Tygstrup.

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