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A Web Companion to Literature in a Postprint World

Please remember: In synch with the ethos of the web, the list below is always in the making.  Please let us know if you've made new discoveries as you make your excursions into cyberia, and please check out related web pages on this site as well.

Note as well that, while many web sites may be informative and useful, they are typically no substitute for the more sustained scholarly discussion of a book.

 

TO BE UPDATED AND EXPANDED PERIODICALLY—please stay tuned! Please consult

• FILM PAL from the navigation menu above for related links especially to cinema, and
• MAL PAL and THEO PAL from the navigation menu as well, as the membrane between modern and contemporary/postmodern literature/culture/theory is fluid and permeable.
• FILM PAL and JAZZ PAL from the navigation menu might lead you to useful web resources on film & film criticism.
• RAILROADING from the navigation menu above might point to links between (train) transport technologies and perception...

GENERAL

Bioscope: Early and Silent Cinema (excellent) Filmmonthly Marshall McLuhan I, II Center for History of New Media Future of the Book Electric Literature Magazine UBUWEB: Sound: (Poetry) MP 3 Archive Douglas Kahn, Audio Art,  soundtoys Snapshots of Photography I, II Telegraphy I, II, What is the Meaning of SOS? Typewriter History I, II, III, IV A Look Back at the Typewriter (NPR) Typewriters in a Digital Age (NPR) Typewriter Man (NPR) Virtual Typewriter Museum Classic Typewriter Store Media History Project Celebrities Write on Parchment Movietone—Newsreel Archive LibriVox Sven Birkerts, Reading in a Digital Age Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making as Stupid?,   The Shallows, The Glass Cage (McLuhanism 50 Years Later); NC's blog: RoughType; The Glass Cage (NYT) David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect Benjamin Kunkel., Goodbye to the Graphosphere After the Media Apocalypse & Stories Ted Striphas, The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control Evgeny Mozorov, The Net Delusion Postmodern Theory: Walter Benjamin, Frankfurt School/Benjamin I, II, III, IV How we Write: Writing as Design World's Smallest Fountain Pen Thomas Alva Edison I, "Fred Ott's Sneeze" Twilight of the Books?  I, II, III Google going Retro The Great Exhibition (1851), I, II, III This is Your Brain on Writing (24 June 14) The Internet of Words (Aug 14) Lise Gitelman, How Users Define New Media: A History of the Amusement Phonograph Women and the Rise of Sound Recordings Women in Media Research History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting Marc Raboy, Marconi: The Man Who Wired the World (2016) Ergodic Literature Lessons in Stillness (2017) From  Clay Tablet to Predictive Texts: How Tech Shapes Lit (2017) Klaus Benesch, Maschinenliebe (Telepolis 2018) The Short Story Vending Machine Dwarsliggers--or How to Reinvent and Cellularize the Book (11/18) Japan and the fax machine, Japan and paper

Spartacus Educational History of Robots in the Victorian Era LiteraryHistory.com Project Gutenberg Literature Network (online texts) Center for History of Physics The Nobel Foundation Postmodern Theory: Walter Benjamin Frankfurt School/Benjamin I, II, III Eiffel Tower I, II, III LibraryThing (good for book covers) Vorticism The Selling of the Cellphone History of Information Consumption Bob Brown: Godfather of the E-Reader The Joy of (Outdated) Facts TEDtalks Tom Bissell, Extra Lives — Why Videogames Matter American Novel Pronounced Dead--Again Radiolab Luke Fernandez' Blogspot The Future of Picture Books? Oliver Sack's, The Mind's Eye The Rise of Robot Books Cyborgs e.V. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Audiobooks I, II American Reading Habits Novels & Cable TV Typewriter in Film Pico Ayer, The Joy of Quiet Teju Cole on Photographers and Their Work (NYT) Digital Deluge & Image Overload Voice Control and Writing Literary Data Mining Audiobooks: Speaking Volumes Why Memorize a Poem? What the Ancients Can Teach Us How to Remember Before MOOCS, "Colleges of the Air" The Invention of News Turing Test Breakthrough/Eugene Goostman (June 14); The Imitation Game (film on Turing, 2014) The Echoes of Hearts Long Silenced Digitale Passage Download Free Art Books (Metro MMA) Stop Googling. Let's Talk India's Earliest Photographers Peter Manseau, The Apparitionists (2017)  --  photography & spiritualism) The Gutenberg Parenthesis Reintroducing the Fairness Doctrine? -- American Radio and Politics

 

SPECIFIC WRITERS & SPECIFIC MEDIA

Guillaume Apollinaire, GA - site officiel, GA II, GA III, "Il Pleut"; GA I, "Zone," III, IV, "Lettre-Ocean" Appleton, Tom Swift I, TS II, TS III J. M. Barrie, Barrie & Cinema Benjamin, Walter, [to be filled it, one of these years "], History is Photography: The Afterimage of WB Sir Arthur Conan (the Barbarian) Doyle, D-Overview, Holmes-Overview, "A Case of Identity ", D-Original Stories, "Text: The Japanned Box I," "Text: The Japanned Box II," "LibriVox: The Japanned Box," "The Voice of Science" Charles Dickens, MS-pages of A Christmas Carol F Scott Fitzgerald, Gatz Em M. Forster, "The Machine Stops" Italian Futurism, F- Overview, F-Technopoetics, F-Manifestos, Bring Da Noise, Centennial Exhibition 2009 Symphony of Sirens: Soung Experiments in the Russian Avant Garde (1908-1942) Jean-Marie Guyau, "Memory and Phonograph" (1880) Thomas Hardy and Film Ernst Juenger, Review of On Pain (not yet linked) Eadweard Muybridge I, II Henry James, HJ, Guide to HJ websites, A Virtual HJ, Postal Unconscious/Typewriter, (PMuse), Overview: In the Cage George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Pygmalion: Sequel, Pygmalion Stories & Art, P Study Guide, GBS and Film, GBS and Phonetics, Shavian Alphabet, Pros & Cons of English Spelling Reform Bram Stoker, Phonograph in Dracula (the web contains several sites along these lines) Frank Norris, Bio, N-Search, Narrative & Kinetoscope (PMuse), Fantaisie Printanière, Greed I, Greed II, Greed III Mark Twain, Bio, T-Search, Yankee, Typewriter, Paige-Typesetter, Fountain Pen, Gramophone Martin Heidegger, On the Hand and the Typewriter Friedrich Kittler, [to be started one of these days], Machinology (Obituary, Jussi Parikka), FK Obituary (Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian) Machine Learning (Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Cultural Politics special on FK (2012), Winthrop-Young on Kittler, German Media Theory, and everything else Deutsch-deutsche Traumfigur" -- 50 Jahre "Sandmännchen" N. Katherine Hayles I, Electronic Literature (2008) Wolfang Hagen–Theory and Practice of Radio,  Pirate Radio/Radio Caroline, Pilkington Report Lisa Gitelman, How Users Define New Media: A History of the Amusement Phonograph Geoffrey Winthrop-Young & Bernhard Siegert Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation (Jonathan Franzen); The Distracted Classroom; The Phones We Love Too Much Sven Birkerts, Changing the Subject Anthony Lane, A Boy's World - The Tintin Century (2007)