Paper in the Age of Industrial Print typewriters telephones Ruttmann paper office newspaper modernity cinema Berlin Curator's Note In the age of electronic media, paper positions itself as deliberate and traditional. It may be slower, more expensive, ...
One point this video + your discussions raises is whether there's two different and competing fantasies at work in transforming cloth into paper. ("Fantasy" isn't exactly the word I mean, but I'm struggling to think of a better on ...
Just to pick up where Ben left off-- hygiene plays a HUGE role in media history, especially the history of paper. One of the main advantages of wood paper over rags was that its production was more hygienic; collecting all of that cloth (especially handke ...
I love this post, Cathleen, and I'm excited to read your book, because the more I've read about the history of paper & printing in the US and elsewhere, the more impressed I've become by the quality and ingenuity that went into the prod ...
I've always been struck by something popular attitudes towards bureaucracy that's contradictory on its face. On the one hand, we associate bureaucracy with impersonality, hyper-rational formalism, and the law, but also the arbitrary, even spitef ...
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