Sign here! : handwriting in the age of new media

Table of Contents......Page 5
Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of Technical Reproduction: Introduction......Page 8
Section One: Authentic Copies......Page 22
Authentic Events: The Diaries of Anne Frank and the Alleged Diaries of Adolf Hitler......Page 24
The Authority of Drawing: Hand, Authenticity, and Authorship......Page 51
Authenticity and Objectivity in Scientific Communication: Implications of Digital Media......Page 61
Authenticity in Bits and Bytes......Page 77
Section Two: Re-Mediating Handwriting......Page 94
Signature Identity Content: Handwriting in an Age of Digital Remediation......Page 96
Writing the Self: Of Diaries and Weblogs......Page 117
Hands on the Document: Arnold Dreyblatt’s T Archive......Page 135
Faithfully Submitted: The Logic of the Signature in Marcel Proust’s A la recherché......Page 151
(Hand)writing Film History: Saul Bass Draws Martin Scorsese in a Title Sequence and Writes his Name Underneath......Page 165
Section Three: Handwriting and (Dis-)Embodiment......Page 182
Writing on Archiving Machines......Page 184
Blood Samples and Fingerprint Files: Blood as Artificial Matter, Artistic Material, and Means of the Signature......Page 197
Writing Over the Body, Writing With the Body: On Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah Series......Page 207
Perfor/m/ative Writing: Tattoo, Mark, Signature......Page 222
Contributors......Page 238
Illustration Acknowledgement......Page 242
Index......Page 243