Jonathan Senchyne
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Thanks, Mike. Your question
Thanks, Mike. Your question about what's lost in the false choice between digital and print raises for me a question about how media organize sociality. We're quite familiar with how digital forms do it--- our conversation is happening in a t ... -
Timothy, I wouldn’t say that
Timothy, I wouldn't say that 18th- and 19th-century papermakers necessarily aim to efface the cloth that went into their paper, in fact idealization and fantasies were quite powerful marketing tools for them. I have in mind the advertisements that ... -
Repeat cycle
Josh, Your invocation of ecology makes me want to read Richard Frame's 1692 "Short Description of Pennsylvania," in which the Rittenhouse Mill is described more closely alongside 18th-century naturalist writing. I've been interested ... -
The History of American Paper
Cathleen, thanks for this brief history of C19-American paper, it'll be an useful and efficient place to send students for some background next time I want to discuss the book industry in a C19-American lit course. I have a question about the avail ... -
Amputation
Your linkage of the streetwalking arm and the homeless figure over the trashcan fire brings back for me the sense of irrational material loss implied in another idiomatic expression: "he cut off his nose to spite his face." I'm not familia ...