ABSTRACT

Language Machines questions any easily progressive model of technological change, demonstrating the persistence rather than the obsolescence of language technologies over time, the continuous and complicated overlap of pens, presses, screens and voice. In these essays new technologies do not simply replace, but rather draw upon, absorb, displace and resituate earlier technologies.

part 1|57 pages

Pens

chapter 1|22 pages

The Female Pen

Writing as a Woman

chapter 2|33 pages

The Duplicity of the Pen

part 3|72 pages

Screens

part 4|65 pages

Voice

chapter 9|19 pages

Performing Talking Cures

Artaud's Voice

chapter 10|20 pages

Kubla Honky Tonk

Voice in Cyber-Pidgin