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  • 20:08, 28 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Kahan 2000 (Created page with "Kahan, Basil. ''Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and His Machine.'' Oak Knoll Press, 2000.")
  • 00:01, 28 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Thoburn 2016 (Created page with "Thoburn, Nicholas. ''Anti-Book'' (2016) Exploiting this function, Amazon Noir comprised a software script that would obtain a book’s entire text via repeated searches, substituting the last words of one search for the first words of the next. x Amazon Noir served to articulate the inequity of the privatization of the nonscarce resource of digital text, while taking advantage of the means by which the technological affordances of digital text are mobilized to excite...")
  • 23:59, 27 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page McIlwain 2020 (Created page with "McIlwain, Charlton D. ''Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter.'' Oxford University Press, 2020. Black America dragged Jim Crow to its deathbed in the 1960s. Still, the nation’s elite science and engineering institutions—the ones that were developing the first digital computers—locked black Americans out of their ranks. Back in 1964, this moved scholars from talking merely about technologi- cal systems and relation...")
  • 23:37, 27 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Poovey 2008 (Created page with "Poovey, Mary. ''Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. …it was not until Literature was declared to be a different kind of imaginative writing that a secular model of value completely at odds with the market model was articulated. When this occurred, Literary writing gave up its claim to be valuable in the old sense, precisely by insisting that it was more valuable in a...")
  • 23:33, 27 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Hacking 1990 (Created page with "Hacking, Ian. ''The Taming of Chance.'' Cambridge University Press, 1990. During the nineteenth century it became possible to see that the world might be regular and yet not subject to universal laws of nature. A space was cleared for chance. Page 14 Something else was pervasive and every- body came to know about it: the enumeration of people and their habits. Society became statistical. Page 14 A new type of law came into being, analogous to the laws of nature, bu...")
  • 19:15, 20 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Bryan-Wilson 2017 (Created page with "Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Fray: Art + Textile Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2017. == Introduction == What does it mean to imagine the sewing needle as a dangerous tool and to envision female collective textile making as a process that might upend conventions, threaten state structures, or wreak political havoc? An article on the Republican Party national field director Maxene Fernstrom from 1981 recounts that “she turns heads when she bursts into a room wearing...")
  • 19:09, 20 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Graziano 2025 (Created page with "Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak. ''Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity.'' Pluto Press, 2025. rather than the hypermasculine ideal of a swashbuck- ler, we want to refocus attention on the pirate as a disabled worker (with the eye patch, hook hand, peg leg) cultivating rebellious forms of solidarity and care. When pirates seized a ship that would other- wise almost certainly have been their coffin, they were appropriating the pin...")
  • 19:00, 20 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Menke 2019 (Created page with "Menke, Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 (2019) Introduction: Inventing Media and Their Meanings - The Phonautograph and Nineteenth-Century Media The phonautograph and its successors were a landmark in the study of sound. But their inventor Léon Scott was no scientist or engineer. Rather, he came to imagine a machine for capturing sound because of his desire to optimize and automate the great medium of writing. As a printer and typesetter...")
  • 18:59, 20 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Krajewski 2014 (Created page with "Krajewski, Markus. World projects : global information before World War I. 2014. in the second half of the nineteenth century, big business no longer ori- ents itself according to national borders. The age of corporations begins, and they pursue their business in the international setting and thus build new commercial empires. Page 1 As the laying of railroad ties was accompanied by the erection of telegraph poles, the deep sea cable was sunk beneath the main routes o...")
  • 18:57, 20 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Abbate 1999 (Created page with "Abbate, Janet. ''Inventing the Internet.'' MIT Press, 1999. == Introduction == The history of the Internet is not, therefore, a story of a few heroic inventors; it is a tale of collaboration and conºict among a remarkable variety of players. Page 3 In telling the story of the Internet, I also try to ªll a gap in historical writing about computers. Much of the literature on the history of computing has focused on changes in hardware, on the achievements of individu...")
  • 18:55, 20 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Abbate 2012 (Created page with "Abbate, Janet. Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing. MIT Press, 2012. Why were women encouraged to take up skilled computing work in the 1940s and 1950s, a period when many other technical professions did not welcome them? And given this early success, why are there not more women in the computing professions today? Page 12 The invisibility of women also reflects a more general bias: early histo- ries of computing largely equated computing with...")
  • 18:53, 20 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Miller 2022 (Created page with "Miller, Tiffany. ''The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age.'' University of Arizona Press, 2022. In this book I draw on arguments like these and the cyclical character- istics of media they begin to make visible. But I also cast them against In- digenous concepts of recorded knowledge, which provide a model for how to think about form both holistically and independent of narratives of pro- gression or development. Page 3 Dig...")
  • 18:48, 20 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Fyfe 2024 (Created page with "Fyfe, Paul. Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities. Stanford UP, 2024. Wandering between two worlds, caught between the best and worst of times, the Victorians perceived themselves in the middle of an epochal transition, including to the ways they depicted and communicated these changes. The Victorian moment of new media is also our moment. The last few decades have brought a similar sense of living through an unprece- dented age of dig...")
  • 22:42, 18 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Craftwork (Created page with "Artists/craftworkers * Nancy Smith https://somequietfuture.com/ -- also article in dh+lib: https://dhandlib.org/emotional-bookmarks-data-physicalization-and-the-language-of-literature/")
  • 15:58, 11 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Whearty 2023 (Created page with "Whearty, Bridget. ''Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor.'' Stanford University Press, 2023.")
  • 15:55, 11 August 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Brake 2001 (Created page with "Brake, Laurel. ''Print in Transition, 1850-1910: Studies in Media and Book History.'' Palgrave, 2001. "By 1891 then, the conceptual separation of literature from journalism is clear on both sides, not only from the newspaper press (which had become more inclusive of literary news and reviews) but within the ranks of the army of part-time writers for the periodical press whom Shand called 'the brilliant half-amateurs' ([Shand] 1878: 650). Gosse was one of these, and Geo...")
  • 07:36, 16 June 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Jepsen 2000 (Created page with "Jepsen, My Sisters Telegraphic Jepsen - My Sisters Telegraphic_ Women In Telegraph Office 1846-1950 (2001, Ohio University Press) In the mid-nineteenth century, women telegraph operators entered a challenging, competitive technological field in which they competed di- rectly with men, demanding, and occasionally getting, equal pay and some- times moving into management and senior technical positions. Women telegraphers constituted a subculture of technically educated...")
  • 13:45, 2 June 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Park, Jankowski and Jones 2011 (Created page with "Park, David W., Nicholas W. Jankowski, and Steve Jones, eds. ''The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Contextualizing Newness.'' Peter Lang, 2011.")
  • 20:57, 16 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Marvin 1990 (Created page with "Marvin, ''When Old Technologies Were New'' If our own experience is unique in detail, its structure is characteristically modern. It starts with the invention of the telegraph, the first of the electrical communications machines, as significant a break with the past as print- ing before it. In a historical sense, the computer is no more than an instantaneous telegraph with a prodigious memory, and all the com- munications inventions in between have simply been elaborati...")
  • 20:55, 16 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Duguid 2015 (Created page with "Duguid, "The Ageing of Information" …in the eighteenth century information deserves to be read as a keyword in discussions about relations between mind and world and between indi- vidual and state. Paradoxically, I conclude that reading information in eighteenth-century context reveals a trajectory similar to ideas of ‘‘informa- tion’’ in the twentieth—from youthful enthusiasm to aged suspicion and circumspection—thus making Foucauldian and Habermasian ana...")
  • 20:49, 16 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Headrick 2000 (Created page with "Headrick, ''When Information Came of Age'' There have always been numerate people, for merchants and bureaucrats had been keeping accounts since ancient times. What was new in the Age of Reason and Revolution was the idea that numbers could be used to analyze something other than money, such as population, health and illness, nature, or even divine Providence")
  • 20:48, 16 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Beniger 1986 (Created page with "Beniger, James. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard UP, 1986. Human society seems rather to evolve largely through changes so gradual as to be all but imperceptible, at least compared to the generational cycles of the individuals through whose lives they unfold. Second, contemporaries of major societal transformations are frequently distracted by events and trends more dramatic in immediate impact but less las...")
  • 17:41, 15 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Stephenson 1996 (Created page with "https://web.archive.org/web/20151107094324/https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ revisit Porthcurno Museum bit at the end -- glass tube of ink recording incoming signals, like the glass wires of fiber optic cable; clock mechanism similar to quartz clock in modern computer "This is precisely the same function that is performed by the quartz clock chip at the heart of any modern computing device. The job performed by the regenerator/retransmitter is also perfectly recog...")
  • 14:06, 15 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Macken 2018 (Created page with "Macken, Marian. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice. Routledge, 2018. "Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation and spatial thinking. ''Binding Space: The book as Spatial Practice'' examines the outcomes of housing spatial representation within the format of the artists' book and the possibilities for documenting space within the book." (1)")
  • 14:03, 15 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Castleman 1994 (Created page with "Castleman, Riva. ''A Century of Artists Books.'' Museum of Modern Art, 1994. "Several ground-breaking examples of the diretions in which artists wished to take books at the end of the nineteenth century are studied before a description of the collaborative aspects of making books is given. Producing books in more than one copy is always a matter of organization and having money to pay for the costs. Entrepreneurs who felt inspired by art and books and who cultivated art...")
  • 14:50, 14 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Logotypes (Created page with " == Stanhope typecases == https://www.google.com/books/edition/Oxf_Hist_Soc/oDcNAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=stanhope+%22enfield%27s+speaker%22&pg=PA408&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/Collectanea_Third_Series/7WkJAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=earl+stanhope+type+cases&pg=PA409&printsec=frontcover some logotypes == Beniowski == https://www.google.com/books/edition/Parliamentary_Papers/aqQSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=beniowski+logotypes&pg=PA98&printsec...")
  • 00:24, 13 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Losh 2018 (Created page with "Losh, "Home inspection" https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/8282 "But what if we tell the story of innovation differently to rebut the canonical account of the solo white male inventor myth?" "To understand how the histories of infrastructure can be reimagined I would like to transpose the trope of “home evaluation” from the feminized field of social work to the post-war context of big data and computational culture. In recounting this history, I...")
  • 22:56, 12 May 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Prisons / libraries (Created page with "Jarrett M. Drake: ‘Graveyards of Exclusion:’ Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging https://medium.com/community-archives/graveyards-of-exclusion-archives-prisons-and-the-bounds-of-belonging-c40c85ff1663 Criminalizing Librarians: Threats and Realities -- zine https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/criminalizing-librarians Arrested at the Library: Policing the Stacks -- zine https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee39ec764dbd7179cf1243c/...")
  • 19:48, 19 March 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Rainwater 1986 (Created page with "Rainwater, Robert, ed. ''Max Ernst: Beyond Surrealism.'' New York Public Library, 1986. == Robert Rainwater, "Max Ernst, Printmaker" == == Evan M. Maurer, "Images of Dream and Desire: The Prints and Collage Novesl of Max Ernst" == == Anne Hyde Greet, "Max Ernst and the Artist's Book: From Fiat modes to Maximiliana" ==")
  • 19:39, 19 March 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Max Ernst's collage novels (Created page with "== La Femme 100 têtes == == Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au carmel == == Une Semaine de bonté ==")
  • 17:02, 20 January 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Mullaney 2017 (Created page with "Mullaney, Thomas S. ''The Chinese Typewriter: A History.'' MIT Press, 2017. Mullaney - The Chinese Typewriter A History Introduction: There is No Alphabet Here There was a Chinese dao to match the Greek logos, one that functioned according to a two-part organizational system well known in China. In the first of these, Chinese characters are ordered according to the number of pen- or brushstrokes needed to compose them, an organizational scheme that had been a mainstay...")
  • 19:25, 6 January 2025 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Haigh and Ceruzzi 2021 (Created page with "Haigh and Ceruzzi, ''A New History of Modern Computing'' (2021) == Becoming Universal: Introducing a New History of Computing == The wholesale shift of video and music reproduction to digital technologies likewise challenges us to integrate media history into the long his- tory of computing. Since the original book was written, the computer had become something new, which meant that the book also had to become something n… Yet this discussion is rarely grounded in...")
  • 01:59, 17 December 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Schorb 2014 (Created page with "Schorb, Reading Prisoners Interested in how literate practices show up in relation to prisons, e.g. gallows and confession literature, prison libraries, prisoner education and transformation. Library histories have claimed that education has always been entangled with prisons from their earliest days but this is not true. Wines and Dwight – 225-232 – reporting on secular instruction, literacy instruction, and rise of libraries in prisons (qtd in Schorb 131) See 13...")
  • 01:59, 17 December 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Sweeney 2010 (Created page with "Sweeney, Megan. ''Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons.'' Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. "explores how some women prisoners use the limited reading materials available to them in creative and important ways: to come to terms with their pasts, to negotiate their present experiences, and to reach toward different futures."")
  • 18:57, 20 June 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Otis 2024 (Created page with "Otis, Jessica Marie. ''By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England.'' Oxford: Oxford UP, 2024. Introduction—“Number, Weight and Measure”: Numeracy in Early Modern England This transformation in numerical practices was complex and wide-ranging in its impact on early modern society and thought. In part, it was a transfor- mation in symbolic systems—the culturally agreed upon symbols and syntax used to represent...")
  • 15:04, 17 June 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Coulter 1935 (Created page with "Coulter MA thesis on prison journals Begins with poem — Ralph Chaplin, “Night in the Cell-House” “Material on the subject of prison journals is very limited — confined mostly to magazine articles, the Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the National Prison Association, writings of ex-convicts, and the prison journals themselves.” — so also sent out a questionnaire to 266 institutions Managed to receive info for 258 institutions Low level of education...")
  • 14:33, 17 June 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Fleetwood 2020 (Created page with "Fleetwood, Nicole R. ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. What I learned is that art in prison is a practice of survival, an aesthetic journey that documents time in captivity, a mode of connecting with others, but it does not resolve the injustices rooted in the carceral system. Page 23 This book focuses on the art and aesthetic experiments of people imprisoned in the massive labyrinth of domestic jails an...")
  • 20:43, 12 June 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Cockburn 1983 (Created page with "Cockburn, Cynthia. ''Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change.'' Pluto Press, 1983. marxist approaches to labor of compositors can't account for the gender dynamics within the industry apprenticeship in a chapel for a set number of years, male rituals after industrialization: "Womena nd children, who had characteristically worked and earned within a family context, were increasingly drawn into employment in factories and mines. Here they came under the contro...")
  • 14:49, 23 May 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Joseph Marie Jacquard and his loom (Created page with "Jacquard punched cards in the collection at Thomas Jefferson University: * https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34637604 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34637603")
  • 19:03, 22 May 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Fagone 2017 (Created page with "Fagone, Jason. ''The Woman Who Smashed Codes.'' 2017. Riverbank Laboratories, a bizarre institution now abandoned, a place that helped create the modern NSA but which the NSA knew little about. Elizebeth and her future husband, William Friedman, had lived there when they were young, between 1916 and 1920, when they discovered a series of techniques and patterns that changed cryptology forever. Elizebeth later wrote that seeing the Folio gave her the same feeling “tha...")
  • 18:26, 22 May 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Lupton 2018 (Created page with "Lupton, Christina. ''Reading and the Marking of Time in the Eighteenth Century.'' Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. == Introduction: When Do We Read? == Our days are flooded with small texts that contract and expand to fit the minutes we choose to give them. But when do we read books, those texts whose heft seems more plaintively than ever an appeal to reading’s duration? 1 I do not believe that the minutes crowded by messages, HBO series, and childc...")
  • 14:30, 22 May 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Lupton 2012 (Created page with "Lupton, ''Knowing Books'' (2012) == Prologue == Almost immediately, I was struck by the ways much of this literature was self-reflexive in its own terms, not just about representation, but about the material, economic, and colonial contexts of textual production. Could imperialist and elitist l ture that announced its ideological operations be held responsible for them in the same way as literature that conducted them more by stealth? Were commercially produced texts...")
  • 15:25, 5 April 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Mechanical typesetting (Created page with "== Melissa Score, "Interred in Printing House Vaults: Pianotype Composing Machines of the 1840s," ''Victorian Periodicals Review'' 49.4 (Winter 2016): 578-597. == …the pianotype composing machine is not just a footnote in the inevitable rise of Linotype technology but an artefact that interro- gates preconceived ideas of the compositor’s role and raises the question of why, in the 1840s and 1850s, the mechanization of typesetting was inspired by the workings of the...")
  • 15:19, 5 April 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Player piano (Created page with "see Ord-Hume, ''Pianola'' (1984)")
  • 15:16, 5 April 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Telegraphy (Created page with "Colligan and Linley 2011 -- Ivan Raykoff chapter on piano interface in early telegraphs, typewriters, and player pianos Kieve 1973 -- British history of the telegraph")
  • 15:15, 5 April 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Typewriters (Created page with "Greene 2022 -- chapter on Typewriters Colligan and Linley 2011 -- Ivan Raykoff chapter on piano interface in early telegraphs, typewriters, and player pianos")
  • 15:13, 5 April 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Greene 2022 (Created page with "== 43. Typewriter == As a matter of fact, the first known patent for such a machine was granted by Queen Anne on January 7, 1714, to an inventor named Henry Mill. The 1714 p ent straightforwardly described the work of the “artificial machine,” but no record exists of the machine ever being built by Henry Mill. Later attempts at such a machine were made in Italy and other countries using harpsichord keyboards, which became known as “literary pianos.” Some of th...")
  • 15:07, 5 April 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Colligan and Linley 2011 (Created page with "Colligan, Colette and Margaret Linley, eds. Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Image, Sound, Touch. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Pub. Company, 2011. == intro == … media machines, but in tandem with unprecedented increases in literacy rates, enlargement of urban spaces and imperial networks, and expansion of industrialization and commodity exchange, the nineteenth century experienced the emergence of media ubiquity. after a century of innovative...")
  • 20:16, 19 February 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page Owen's cipher wheel and Baconians (Created page with "Bacon cipher collection NYPL * Some has been digitized: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=bacon+cipher Finding aid: https://archives.nypl.org/mss/176 == Delia Bacon, The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded (1857) == “'It was a time when authors, who treated of a scientific politics and of a scientific ethics internally connected with it, naturally preferred this more philosophic, symbolic method of indicating their c...")
  • 15:23, 2 February 2024 Wtrettien talk contribs created page From Type to .txt (Created page with "Jacquard loom woven book Joseph Marie Jacquard and his loom Charles Babbage Herman Hollerith Early computing devices Punched cards Lithography Facsimiles")
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