Description
Book SynopsisN. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence of what she identifies as the postprint condition, exploring how the interweaving of print and digital technologies has changed not only books but also language, authorship, and what it means to be human.
Trade ReviewN. Katherine Hayles presents new explorations of typesetting, scholarly editing, and radical recent book projects, using these to unite aspects of her theories of computation, textual materialities, and (un)thought. The profound insights in
Postprint show what print is becoming, not just as a medium or cultural phenomenon, but as cognition. -- Nick Montfort, author of
GolemPostprint may be enjoyed simply as a series of well-selected, vividly rendered case studies detailing recent convergences between books, human readers and writers, and computational technologies. But it is much more than that. With her hallmark clarity, Hayles lays out a whole new conceptual framework—the
cognitive-assemblage approach—in terms of which postprint may be grasped as a moment of unprecedented symbiosis across cognitive media: the 'becoming computational of books and people together.' -- James F. English, author of
The Global Future of English StudiesClaiming that computational media have brought to bear new, nonhuman forms of cognition,
Postprint offers a series of compelling examples and showcases an empirical method that will be widely emulated by literary and media studies scholars interested in exploring the history and future of print culture. -- Lee Konstantinou, author of
Cool Characters: Irony and American FictionHayles’ book provides a unique framework for understanding print (and postprint) from a fresh perspective. * Americana *
Hayles has duly focused our attention on books and how closely we are tied to them, perhaps one
of humanity’s finest technologies. * Publishing Research Quarterly *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introducing Postprint
2. Print Into Postprint
3. The Mixed Ecologies of University Presses
4. Postprint and Cognitive Contagion
5. Bookishness at the Limits: Resiting the Human
Epilogue: Picturing the Asemic
Notes
Bibliography
Index
