Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century

by Michael Marrinan and Michael J. Marrinan

Book Overview

Regimes of Description responds to the perception--however imprecise--that forms of knowledge in every sector of contemporary culture are being fundamentally reshaped by the digital revolution: music, speech, engineering diagrams, weather reports, works of visual art, even the words most of us write are now subject, as Lyotard points out in The Inhuman, to a logic of the bit, the elemental unit of electronic information. It is now...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804747423
• ISBN13: 9780804747424
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"