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Legion. An amalgamated journal.

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The dream of a real, visible, or audible world arising from the words is over. The historical synchronicity of cinema, phonography, and typewriter separated the data flows of optics, acoustics, and writing and rendered them autonomous. The fact of this differentiation is not altered by the recent ability of electric or electronic media to bring them back together and combine them.

Friedrich Kittler, “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter,” October 41 (Summer, 1987):101-118.

Garrett Dash Nelson

March 14th, 2009 at 10:10 pm