Title & Author:

The future of the book / edited by Geoffrey Nunberg ; with an afterword by Umberto Eco.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]
©1996

Description:

306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Patrizia Violi -- Introduction / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Books in time / Carla Hesse -- The pragmatics of the new : Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus / James J. O'Donnell -- Material matters : the past and futurology of the book / Paul Duguid -- Farewell to the information age / Geoffrey Nunberg -- The book as symbolic object / Régis Debray -- Toward metareading / Patrick Bazin -- Hypertext and authorship / Luca Toschi -- Twenty minutes into the future, or how are we moving beyond the book? / George P. Landow -- The body of the text / Raffaele Simone -- Ekphrasis, virtual reality, and the future of writing / Jay David Bolter -- (Re)placing the author : "A book in the ruins" / Michael Joyce -- Afterword / Umberto Eco.

Summary:

The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays suggest that it won't be that simple. The digitization of discourse will not be effected without some wrenching social and cultural dislocations. The contributors to this volume are enthusiastic about the possibilities created by digital technologies, instruments that many of them have played a role in developing and deploying. But they also see the new media raising serious critical issues that force us to re-examine basic notions about rhetoric, reading, and the nature of discourse itself.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520204506
9780520204508
0520204514 (pbk.)
9780520204515 (pbk.)

Subject:

Books and reading.
Written communication.
Databases.
Livres et lecture.
Communication écrite.
Bases de données.
databases.
Boeken.
Digitale technieken.
Schrijven.
Lezen.
Letterkunde.
Books and reading Congresses.
Written communication Congresses.
Databases Congresses.
Livres 20e siècle Congrès.
Information Effets des innovations Congrès.
Écriture Effets des innovations Congrès.
Hypertextes Congrès.
Lecture Effets des innovations Congrès.
Communication écrite Effets des innovations Congrès.
Banques de données.
Livres et lecture Effets des innovations Congrès.

Form/genre:

Database
databases.
Databases
Annotations.
Bases de données.

Added entries:

Nunberg, Geoffrey, 1945-2020, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134922
Call No.: ID Z1003.F9; ID:97-B595
Status: Available