Paper Jamming
Matthew Kirschenbaum travels back to 1990s New York with Tamara Shopsin’s “LaserWriter II.”
Matthew Kirschenbaum is professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland. His books include Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing (Harvard University Press, 2016) and, most recently, Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
Matthew Kirschenbaum travels back to 1990s New York with Tamara Shopsin’s “LaserWriter II.”
It’s clear that our media today capture and contain authorial presence with unprecedented levels of abundance. But the total recall and total...