Review: "Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork, Zone Books, 2012" and "Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, Duke University Press, 2014" (joint review)

von Lunen, Alexander (2014) Review: "Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork, Zone Books, 2012" and "Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, Duke University Press, 2014" (joint review). Somatosphere.

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Abstract

Kafka delves into the nature of paper as enabling agent of bureaucracy –
i.e. paperwork – Gitelman’s focus is on “documents” and how they were
shaped by print and are now transformed by the digital.

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URI:

https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/22936

URI:

https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/22936

URI:

https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/22936

Title:

Review: "Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork, Zone Books, 2012" and "Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, Duke University Press, 2014" (joint review)

Creators:

von Lunen, Alexander

Official URL:

http://somatosphere. net/2014/07/gitelmans-paper-k...

Date:

July 2014

Subjects:

D History General and Old World > D History (General)
N Fine Arts > NE Print media

Schools:

School of Music, Humanities and Media

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