SMC228H1 Lecture Notes - Incunable, Gutenberg Bible, William Caxton
17 Dec 2012
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Lecture 01: elements of material bibliography and print culture. Bibliography is: the study of books, including their texts, materials, history, production and distribution; also an account, a list, or description of books or works williams & abbott 143. Authors do not just write books; there are series of processes that lead from an author"s ideas to the book in a reader"s hand. Lecture 02: media transitions and the rhetoric of crisis. Conventions of media use determined by culture, not the media itself. The internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves. Changes between media are slower than we often think. The advent of new media technology does not immediately negate the usefulness or cultural value of a previous technology. New media introduced as participating in older, traditional value systems. Accelerated version of introduction of printing in europe (40 years vs. centuries)
