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Gramophone, Film, Typewriter by Friedrich Kittler (book review)

Posted on 10 May 2012 by Propagandum

Friedrich Kittler’s spiky and complex masterpiece of multimodal media archaeology (published by Stanford University Press in 1986) was our first book for the Cambridge books-about-books group. Not an obvious choice: it’s not about books, but there again, books aren’t necessarily codexes any more. … Continue reading →

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The 12 books of Christmas

Posted on 13 January 2012 by Propagandum

After the Cambridge festival of nine digital devices and arguments, and after some splendid bouts of Balderdash with various combinations of my extended family, the reality principle casts its sober light once more on Propagandum Towers. This follows, of course, the … Continue reading →

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