This is a richly imaginative study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the nineteenth century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality. At the book’s heart is the proposition that technologies of inscription are material...(展开全部)

林恩·亨特是美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校杰出的研究型教授，曾任美国历史学会主席。她著作等身，包括《人权的发明》《历史的真相》等。目前她定居于洛杉矶。

Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women, and minorities challenge...(展开全部)

林恩·亨特是美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校杰出的研究型教授，曾任美国历史学会主席。她著作等身，包括《人权的发明》《历史的真相》等。目前她定居于洛杉矶。

Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women, and minorities challenge...(展开全部)

New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and archit...(展开全部)