Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination

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MIT Press, 2008 - Computers - 296 pages

A new "textual studies" and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa," Michael Joyce's Afternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.

 

Contents

Awareness of the Mechanism
1
Storage Inscription and Computer Forensics
25
A Grammatology of the Hard Drive
73
The Textual Forensics of Mystery_Housedsk
111
Michael Joyces Afternoons
159
The Transformissions of Agrippa
213
The Forensic Imagination
249
Appendix Hacking AgrippaThe Update
261
Works Cited
265
Index
279
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland. He was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.