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The Machine in the Ghost - Digitality and its Consequences

Author
Robin Boast
Publisher / Label
Reaktion Books
Country
UK
Language
English
Publication year
2017
Type of publication
Book
Number of pages
208
ISBN
9781780237398

Index

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 7

1  DIGITAL CODES, TICKER TAPE, PUNCHED CARDS 
AND TELEPRINTING: ON THE ORIGIN OF DIGITALITY   17

2  DATA ENCODING AND STORAGE BEFORE 
THE COMPUTER   42

3  REVISITING COMPUTATION: COMPUTATION DOESN'T 
NEED TO BE DIGITAL   75

4  BACK TO CONTENT: FROM COMPUTATION TO MEDIA   115

5  MEDIA CLONES, MULTIPLE RENDERINGS:
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE DIGITAL   160

GLOSSARY 183

REFERENCES 191

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 197

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 201

PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 203

INDEX 205