Scripts, Grooves, and Writing MachinesThis is a richly imaginative study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the nineteenth century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality. At the books heart is the proposition that technologies of inscription are materialized theories of language. Whether they failed (like Thomas Edisons electric
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