Mechanisms av Matthew G. (Associate Professor of English and Associate Director University of Maryland) Kirschenbaum

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<b>A new “textual studies” and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson''s electronic poem “Agrippa,” Michael Joyce''s Afternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.</b><p>In <i>Mechanisms</i>, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. <i>Mechanisms</i> is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage—the hard drive in particular—arguing that understanding the affordances of storage devices is essential to understanding new media. Drawing a distinction between “forensic materiality” and “formal materiality,” Kirschenbaum uses applied computer forensics techniqu