Henry Sussman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823232833
- eISBN:
- 9780823241170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823232833.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The book is neither a specific medium nor a technology, though it of necessity delves in both. It arises at the interface, on the page or screen between ongoing pervasive inscriptive activity and ...
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The book is neither a specific medium nor a technology, though it of necessity delves in both. It arises at the interface, on the page or screen between ongoing pervasive inscriptive activity and public expression or display. In terms of the holding patterns of the book, they tend to hold back and take by force and they give easy access by reaching out to them. Now and seemingly forever, books have us in a quandary. In order for us rigorously to take it in, the book detains and isolates us to a degree for which we are never fully prepared. The prospects and format of the book are central to sequence of systems formats arising in the positivism and hardwiring. In addition, books are also interrelated with light-writing or photography.Less
The book is neither a specific medium nor a technology, though it of necessity delves in both. It arises at the interface, on the page or screen between ongoing pervasive inscriptive activity and public expression or display. In terms of the holding patterns of the book, they tend to hold back and take by force and they give easy access by reaching out to them. Now and seemingly forever, books have us in a quandary. In order for us rigorously to take it in, the book detains and isolates us to a degree for which we are never fully prepared. The prospects and format of the book are central to sequence of systems formats arising in the positivism and hardwiring. In addition, books are also interrelated with light-writing or photography.
Markus Krajewski and Charles Marcrum
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816695935
- eISBN:
- 9781452947501
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816695935.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter discusses the world plans of Wilhelm Ostwald, a tenured professor of physical chemistry in University of Leipzig who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, ...
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This chapter discusses the world plans of Wilhelm Ostwald, a tenured professor of physical chemistry in University of Leipzig who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria, and reaction velocities. He became a member of the Délégation pour l’adoption d’une langue auxiliaire internationale that attempted to standardize an auxiliary language by developing a new code of language for trade, industry, and scientific communication through the program world auxiliary language. Ostwald also conceptualized the world currency system designed to remove money-changing practice and make international transit more accessible, and the world format system that aimed to unify the format of documents (world format) and avoid arbitrariness of writing.Less
This chapter discusses the world plans of Wilhelm Ostwald, a tenured professor of physical chemistry in University of Leipzig who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria, and reaction velocities. He became a member of the Délégation pour l’adoption d’une langue auxiliaire internationale that attempted to standardize an auxiliary language by developing a new code of language for trade, industry, and scientific communication through the program world auxiliary language. Ostwald also conceptualized the world currency system designed to remove money-changing practice and make international transit more accessible, and the world format system that aimed to unify the format of documents (world format) and avoid arbitrariness of writing.
