De–Black Boxing Media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11660563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne M Royston (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-55 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Camera Obscura Feminism Culture and Media Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0270-5346 • E-ISSN: 1529-1510 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/02705346-4336828 |
| OpenAlex | W2884345179 |
| Language | EN |
Reading Avital Ronell’s unconventionally designed The Telephone Book implies reading material form as well as semantic content. Such a reading emphasizes the book’s typographical illegibilities, which become the figure for the space between person and thing. These illegibilities manifest as unreadable noise, interventions on the print page that produce a technological feminine. Situated alongside ANT (actor-network theory), media theory, and cyborg feminism, the technological feminine gestures at the limits of these attempts to de–black box media, insisting on an irreducible noise or static in communication
Actor–network theory · Aesthetics · Art · Gesture · Linguistics · Media studies · Reading (process · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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